Narrow Black

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“Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:14.

From the Sermon on the Mount.

“How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black except a coffin—a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)