ABSTRACT
The miser whose treasure has been taken from him. It is some of the frozen past which he has lost. Past and future, man’s only riches.
The future is a filler of void places. Sometimes the past also plays this part (‘I used to be,’ ‘I once did this or that . . .’). But there are other cases when affliction makes the thought of happiness intolerable; then it robs the sufferer of his past (nessun maggior dolore . . .).
