A new collection of Gameover’s Atelier: VIPs from the past
Every graveyard is full of irreplaceable persons who will never be forgotten – or at least that’s what one may read carved on their headstones. In fact though within a few generations those mossy inscriptions will be all what’s left of them.
Only a few exceptional people manage to escape such almost inevitable fate: centuries or even millennia after their bodies have turned to dust, their names and deeds are still unforgotten, permanently engraved on something much more durable than a stone: history.
To some of them the humankind is heavily indebted because they brought into being brilliant ideas, discoveries, inventions or insights that enhanced deeply the quality of our lives and our way of seeing the universe that surrounds us. But, alas, not all of them: others will never be forgotten because of the trail of blood they left behind, and their names will be forever accursed for trying to fulfill their monstrous ambitions by walking on corpses.
Others still will be remembered eternally for things they never did – for the simple reason that they never existed other than as figments of an artist’s imagination: think of Hamlet, of the Minotaur, of Sherlock Holmes, of Prometheus… and nonetheless we see them as if they had been real people from a past we never saw.
Yes, life is bizarre…