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# Should you ever grow vain, compare yourselves, lying awake until two in the morning with a telephone in your embrace, scrolling through reels, with the seventeenth-century astronomer of the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, who, with hourglass and globe, passes h
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/esli-vdrug-prevoznesetes-sravnite-sebia-lezhashchikh-do-dvukh-chasov-nochi-s-telefonom-v-obnimku-i-listaiushchikh-rilz-s-astronom-xvii-veka-gollandskogo-khudozhnika-gerrita-dou-kotoryi/
- Published: 2024-06-01T06:32:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Art, Observations, Science, Humour

Should you ever grow vain, compare yourselves, lying awake until two in the morning with a telephone in your embrace, scrolling through reels, with the seventeenth-century astronomer of the Dutch painter Gerrit Dou, who, with hourglass and globe, passes his nights over a scientific treatise. Do you feel the difference?