It’s hardly a terrible penance. Lots of people would prefer half a life of extreme riches and hedonism and then half a life of quiet, useful, technical employment to what they have today.
Poor? What do you mean? His revealed preferences clearly say that he’s better off as a cambist than a Lord Iron! He’d be poorer if he had remained Lord Iron. :)
Very nice story but the ending is incomplete.
What became of Lord Iron?
He took up cambisting.
I guess I realized that after I left the computer. Poor bugger!
It’s hardly a terrible penance. Lots of people would prefer half a life of extreme riches and hedonism and then half a life of quiet, useful, technical employment to what they have today.
Poor? What do you mean? His revealed preferences clearly say that he’s better off as a cambist than a Lord Iron! He’d be poorer if he had remained Lord Iron. :)
It seems to me that, having the advantage of a good soul, he went to heaven. And so wealth was generated.
After a bit of cambisting, that is.
An uneventful but respectable life, I imagine.