short days -

I felt like the genre was auto biographical, it was personal and it seemed almost as memories of someone written down as thoughts.
My favorite epigram was "The dark owns everything, but our sun comes out often enough that we think the universe is half dark, half light."  he epigram before talks about ending and oblivion then leads into the epigram i chose. i felt as if when you think of oblivion you think of this dark place of nothing. The dark owning everything is a way of looking at the world in a pessimistic way. the sun comes out to fool us, to make us think its half half but in reality the dark owns and usually dominates.
The next epigram spoke about when the bad passes the first feeling is relief. i related it to the the epigram i chose by saying when the sun comes out after darkness, its that sense of relief.
Of course i don't think the author was being literal when he was writing this. he wanted to get a message across and used these comparisons and distinctions in order for readers to comprehend.
i think this piece of work was titled short days because each epigram sounds like a day this character has endured. a day that they lived and how our life is short lived and each day is just one of  many that is the episodes of our life.