For the candle, where the candle is a proxy for life—flammable tallow, a taper we trim—there is no better adjective, though it doesn’t follow that briefw is the best word for life. For one thing, even those who would impress upon us the brevity of our turn favor its synonyms: the poets, fleeting; the evangelists, short. For another, time accordions. B…
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