One night after he had been wracked by a dream in which he found himself enclosed in impenetrable darkness, he asked the Court Oneiromancer what the dream  signified.

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"The darkness signifies infinity," she said, the realm of the afterlife."

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"How can that be?" the king said. "I will be a god among all the other gods. The priests have confirmed this."

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"That is true, my Lord."

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"But that is madness! What is then is the point of immortality?"

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"The point is, my Lord, there is no point."

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The next day the body of the Court Oneuromancer was found floating in the Nile.

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—Herodotus, Histories