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MEMENTO VIVERE | Excerpt 1.

(Memento Vivere was written in the autumn of 2020, but never released on a wide scale until now. It received extremely positive reviews from those few who got the chance to read it. It is a book like few others, a non-fictional treatise, sprinkled with stories of great mystique. An ode to high beauty, adventure, glory and the embrace of a life beyond the ordinary)

“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life.Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day...The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.” – Seneca

The story goes that when the Roman legionnaires arrived back inRome, triumphant with the spoils of war, they would be met by the civil ceremony and religious rite of the ‘Roman triumph.’

The military general would ride his chariot drawn by four horses through the Roman streets to the cacophony of undulating cheers from the citizens. There would be such effervescent epinicion from the crowd at their magnificent victory over whichever Gaulish tribe they had besieged and conquered. At that moment the general would feel as if he were divine and be viewed as such by both his troops and the adoring citizenry. He would feel as close to a God as one could.

It is said that in these moments he would have a captured slave accompany him in the chariot. The slave would be instructed to whisper something is his ear as the procession meandered through the city.

The slave would whisper, “memento mori,” over and over in the general’s ear.

Memento mori, memento mori, memento mori, the slave whispers.

Remember you die, remember you die, remember you die.

This mantra tethered the general to his base and offered him the necessary humility that so many lose when they reach great heights. Imagine yourself the general. The procession, the colours, the overwhelming sound, your heart drilling around your ribcage.

Memento mori. Remember you die.

However, this book is not about that. While this is important and has been a popular motif for the stoic mind throughout history, it is not what is needed in the modern world. The crumbling edifice whispers something different in our ear.

It whispers, “you’re already dead.”You’re already dead. You’re already dead. You’re already dead.

But I say nay to the necrotic lechers with their withered hands and sunken eyes, I say “fuck you, and fuck the horse you came in on.”

No, this book is not about death.

This book is about LIFE.

This book is an exhortation to the vital and beautiful to the transcendent to the divine. This book is about MEANING! It is about the God in everything, every cell, every iota of existence is filled to the brim with light and meaning.

And lo, they might try to take it from us. Those that reside in the darkness. The rats with crooked faces that scurry in the shadows.Through fear and void they assert themselves, and we say the most powerful word there is:

No.

De jour solemn et naturale. You are answerable to the creator, my friend, separate from the holy see.

This book is an appeal to glory and providence and that which will outlast father time himself. This is the glory of you the glory of all those that stand up and say, in the words of Sir Oswald Mosley,“We Live!”

Remember you die, no more. First, you must remember you live.

MEMENTO VIVERE. MEMENTO VIVERE.MEMENTO VIVERE.

REMEMBER YOU LIVE. REMEMBER YOU LIVE.REMEMBER YOU LIVE.

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