Exactly whom I thought it looked like. Edit: Oops! I really, immediately thought of William. Unfortunate, that he's come to resemble his father.

Fantastic asymmetrical balance and hierarchy, intended or not. Haunting

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.

Babies can't read. You're helping them rebel against the conventions of society. It's called altruism and you should try it.

This sounds like a comment made by someone who doesn't have any real friends.