An earnest darker figure is making a point to a receptive lighter one. The
lighter figure appears to be balancing a small ball, The Truth, on the tips
of its fingers. The earnest darker figure is making such a definitive point
that it appears to know what it is talking about. The lighter figure's face
possesses a dissolved quality indicating that The Truth cannot ever really
be completely known.
"Fundamentally everything is inexplicable. It doesn't matter what you go
into, if you go into it deeply enough you realise there is no answer because
you come to the end of reason.
Probably melancholia gives you the feeling of coming to the end of reason.
It affects the feeling level. It isn't merely that your mind can no longer
understand what is happening to it. But you have the feeling that there is
no way that you can go on and that reason itself has come to a stop; or, as
they say, time itself comes to a stop; or the mind at the end of its tether.
That's the importance, though, that it stops the mind's inflation that it
can understand everything or come to grips with anything."
James Hillman |