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The sun also rises, and the sun goes down.
Оглавление. . . and Solomon is still unhappy. Not only is the sun not his own personal source of life and identity, but it is also indifferent to his unhappiness and changing moods. This makes the rising and the setting of the sun wearisome to him.
It wasn’t always this way. When we are young, we tend to think the sun rises and sets on us alone. It seems personal. But in fact the sun rises and sets to sustain all life on earth, not only ours. The larger context of this sorrowful reflection, then, is life.
The sun’s indifference to his suffering is painful to Solomon and the shining identity he has been pursuing all his life. Instead of bringing him the dawn of a new day and a new hope, the cycles of the sun begin to mark his discontent with relentless precision.
A sunny day without joy can seem very long indeed. Solomon is looking for the restoration of the joy he once knew. He will find it, but he has a long, long way to go.
