“There is no remembrance of people of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.” “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.” “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” Damn! That is some dark shit. It was dismal, an almost nihilistic sequence of wise sayings and rules to live by. It was from the perspective of an ancient king who received all the luxuries of opulent living, and found them empty.
