Life is somewhere else

About Jaromil, hero of the novel "The Life in Another Place": He used to spend a lot of his time in his father's room between pen and paper, as dogs became his main subject of drawings, and there are countless epic scenes in which dogs are leaders and soldiers, and football players and knights. And since they could not perform these human roles and because of their quadruped shape, Jaromil began to imitate them with a man's body... That was a great invention, and when he tried to draw a human being, he indeed faced a serious difficulty... He was unsuccessful in drawing a human face, but he succeeded brilliantly in drawing the elongated dog's head and the spot of the nose at the end of this head... Love of words overcomes you, so you advance with your surprise to the following pages and read as if you are not reading... as if you are doing something else... something you do not understand but it entertains you... pleases you... and your admiration stumbles into another wonder in this paragraph: "Only he knew everything, while others were like an audience that does not understand or the victim who understands... He saw them against the background of a distant mountain scene, and he told himself that they are lost in this distant scene, like death that is lost on the earth, and he himself was because he knew everything, broader than this distant, moist scene." The Life in Another Place, Kundera