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son_of_abe t1_iv33ww5 wrote

As long as Death takes off his shoes before coming in, we're cool.

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Zbeubor t1_iv2rx0x wrote

We were one word away from tragedy

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WackSparrow t1_iv38zqs wrote

Yeah he rings the doorbell to go after you when you are (edit) vulnerable. I had this night terror before.

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McHarzberg t1_iv5a5rp wrote

Whole title is "Death as an uninvited guest"

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masshiker t1_iv6p4z2 wrote

Death must be embraced

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Zeqhanis t1_ivvsb0k wrote

He's wearing a heavy fur coat, because he's so skinny. And clearly, it's autumn outside. Sensible.

Unfunny jokes aside, the caption plusquamperfectum reminds me of the linguistic tense. A tense which was never really well explained to me in German (Plusquamperfekt).

Wikipedia lists it to mean "used to refer to an occurrence that at a past time had already been started (but not necessarily completed)". In the context of this painting, it's an apt metaphor for the process of death, which began at birth.

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