The Quest for the Fount Of Knowledge

THE QUEST FOR THE FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE PROLOGUE You found me at last.  I’ve been waiting for you.  You seek what I have failed to find. You may see before you a, tired, blind, and melancholic old man, but once I was young, full of life and invincible! I travelled the world, boldly going where no one had gone before…well at least nowhere a nobody somebody from Northamptonshire had gone before anyway.  I wanted to see everything, know everything, experience everything that the World had to offer.   I have seen things you would not believe.  Meteors shooting through the shoulder of Orion.  I watched fire flies glitter under the shadow of giant Sequoia in Yosemite.  All these moments stardust in my mind.   I think of these moments now, bought to tears by the memory of their beauty, and the rare privilege bestowed upon me to witness these events, yet overwhelmed with grief that I did not appreciate these gifts for then I was never satisfied.  I was never happy, never fulfilled, never ta