Sickness will strike many, and death will strike all human beings in the end. Man desperately fights against what is unavoidable. Disappointed he looks at the lines in his hands which promised him a prosperous future but let him down. No dignity in this sort of prophecy. No dignity either in the great masterpieces of art which man has produced throughout the ages.
Man is unable to produce or capture dignity in words or lines.
Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind, combing his hair back, his future looks thin, he bites the bullet and looks within, for dignity. The British Empire, like so many empires, has fallen. All the great evening empires have returned into sand, no matter how great and dignified they may have looked. Nothing left to build on for this stranded Englishman. The idea that somebody could come up with a picture showing dignity as a person is really ridiculous.