With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
“It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”
“But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.”