Beginnings...

The Greeks had a word for it: eudaimonia — the good life. Not good in the sense of indulgent, luxurious, happy or pleasurable but rather, in conjunction with arete, in the senses of desirably virtuous, of fulfilment and satisfaction. They were not alone. On every continent the rightness of living has been an abiding issue for all humanity throughout recorded history. Many, with varying degrees of success and acceptance, have spoken or written about how life should be lived. Many more still wonder.

Now, as powers once the sole preserve of mighty nation states are wielded by progressively smaller and smaller entities, as each and every human being perceives how he or she affects the world at large, the question becomes yet more pressing. And so it is asked again: How should we live?

This book does not contain the answer — the question has no ultimate end — but it does offer an answer as the basis for a new beginning. The book is itself a journey — of beginnings and endings and beginning again. Read it and travel — along the way you may remember your own dreams and discover more.

Read it and you will never be the same again. Let it pass unread and still you will be changed. How will you change? The choice is yours.

The Blurb

The blurb*, which comes as close to describing Fragments of Berossus as I have so far managed, says:

There is a question seeking none of these:
what or who or why
or where or when.
There is a journey with no there or then.
Every journey finds an answer,
Every question has its end.

To which, if pressed, I might now add:

Two men, one timeless journey spanning thirty years.
The Young Man and The Old Man — a search for wisdom, a search for atonement.

One epic journey, two directions. 
To the heights of mystery — and then a fall;  to the depths of despair — and then uplifted.

Beneath the sun by day, and stars by night they journey on.  
Consumed by fire and water, sustained by earth and air, the search goes on.

The Thinker and The Warrior confront the nature of choice and the consequences of their choices — war, famine, pestilence & death... and peace, plenty, incorruption & life.

Lives sacrificed and lives reclaimed. All life is here.

What others have said about Fragments of Berossus —
  • A real page-turner
  • Majestic!
*The origins of Blurb...

According to the OED — A brief descriptive paragraph or note of the contents or character of a book, printed as a commendatory advertisement, on the jacket or wrapper of a newly published book. Hence in extended use: a descriptive or commendatory paragraph.

Said to have been originated in 1907 by Gelett Burgess in a comic book jacket embellished with a drawing of a pulchritudinous young lady whom he facetiously dubbed Miss Blinda Blurb
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