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Don't try to find the moral of the story in the Metamorphoses instead you should be left with the thought of "what's this all about"

art is redemptive, but it does not justify

Shakespeare's sonnet 65 is what we are left with

SONNET 65
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Sexson suggests that we watch the movie "Andre Rublev"
-he says it is like a 3 hour Russian movie that is so slow - but he says you need to watch the whole movie