Read this excerpt from "the legend." there's a rembrandt glow on his face, a triangle of orange in the hollow of his cheek as a last flash of sunset blazes the storefronts and lit windows of the street. in these lines, the allusion to the great seventeenth-century portrait painter rembrandt highlights the theme "youth is the best time of life." "people are nothing next to nature." "individual lives are important." "our lives depend on the sun."