The Painter’s psychology filters the tangled mass of men, as it would be protected in a hull, that proceeds in the slow and uniform movement of the turtle. As a symbol of persistence and patience, the animal contains the young bodies in itself, as it would be their war machine. Survivors will be wise men, not only because skilled in the struggle, they will be recompensed in the old age with the knowledge of the world, seen from the most uncomfortable point of view. The define and accurate strokes seem to give a story to every single soldier, they will be the ones who will report the facts and let the turtle not to stop its slow motion, and metaphorically not to stop all the civilizations.

 

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