He was born he suffered he died (1974)

The quote is Joseph Conrad answering a critic who found his books too long Conrad replied that he could write a novel on the inside of a matchbook cover thus as above but that he preferred to elaborate The Life of the film is scratched on black leader The elaboration of color tonalities is as the minds eye responds to hieroglyph SB Note it seems possible that Brakhage misattributed this quote which appears to be from William Faulkner andor W Somerset Maugham