Read the excerpt from "Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature" by William Faulkner.

"He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."

What does the use of the word ephemeral suggest?
Question 3 options:

A writer must never let go of fear if he wants to be successful.


Writers too fearful to write truthfully are criticized.



A story without heart will be short lived.


A story does not need to be truthful to last forever.