The Lost Voices - Liber 3: An epic trilogy of ancient Pompeii.

Or is it the man gifted with brilliance, but who is then forced to ponder the meaning – or meaningless – nature of existence, and is then driven to infuse significance into his time on this earth by striving desperately to leave some measure of himself behind after he has passed on? Unfortunately, he’ll never have the chance to hold such a debate.

It would be an interesting debate to have sometime over a drink, he thinks. Who is the richer man? Is it the oaf who finds complete contentment in some pitiful job and then takes his pleasure in the taverns and the whorehouses and demands or expects nothing more from life?

He whispers a line from Euripides to an audience only of memories. – All is change; all yields its place and goes.

The human heart has finite capacity for emotion. And hers was filled to bursting.