A thought.

[illgotten]

Your names will be forgotten. When the last trumpet has sounded, when they call the roll of the immortal and the damned, you will not be called. Within a generation, you will be no more than names; within a century, no more than shadows. You will not be venerated, you will not be respected, and you will not be hated. Who hates the scorpion's

Comments

[lakelady_nimue]

You are wise beyond your years. If you are remarking on what I have been ranting about since I arrived here, you would be quite correct.

[illgotten]

*sketches a bow* I haven't heard you ranting, Lady, so I can't say.

[rightismight]

A man should never live with the goal of veneration after his death.

[illgotten]

Bit difficult to gauge success, if nothing else.

[rightismight]

*slight smile* That wasn't my point, you know.

[illgotten]

Nossir. But the kind of people with everlasting glory as a goal wouldn't follow your logic, anyway.