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2015-11-20 22:44:43
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Nothing is forever. A bitter fact that man must face, gnawing at his conscience in moments of quiet thought. It is the reason that he procreates, to further a line of his blood. It is the reason that he went about building the first cities and learning the first writings, to create something that stood well beyond his years. Perhaps more than women, land, wealth or power, perhaps not, it is the reason for those who rise among us and lead us to glory and greatness do so. What we have is never enough to what we can have, what we can attain.
Forever. Found deep in the consciousness of the ancient Hellas, whom took to the book of Homer as Muslim to Holy Quran, or Christian to Bible. Not a prophet of God or Gods, the man Homer. He was a prophet still, a speaker wise in how might men attain immortality, to be spoken of in years to come and for whose behavior and exploits might be imitated in centuries yet to arrive. A man who seemed to still stand despite his death, though those he stood within were not of his blood, not of his faith, not even of his origins.
Such a man was the Roman Empire of the East. Not ruling from Rome, not centered upon Latin blood, not speaking Latin nor even praying to Rome's Gods. Yet they were Rome. A different land, a different people, a different world. And yet Rome lingered, as changed as a hairless crying kitten might change into a muscular, roaring lion. And one would fear, change into a toothless frail old beast. To those of the Middle East or of Europe in the Dark ages and early Middle Ages, the Roman Empire of the East must have seemed something that was to be forever, a capital held by walls not even God's Angels could breach.
