Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 78 - Babbalanja solus

In which the narrator contemplates the eerie House of the Afternoon, adorned with the skeletal remains and emblematic armaments of ancient kings, pondering the vanishing substance of their legacies and the enigma of life beyond death. This solemn reflection delves into the fleeting nature of existence, the silence of the departed, and the inexorable march of time that renders all things—kings and commoners alike—to dust.