Monday, February 12, 2007

Live Dangerously

A few days ago I posted a quote from Nietzsche on the virtues of heroic risk. Apparently he wasn't kidding:
...the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge The time will soon be past when you can be content to live concealed in the woods like timid deer!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Gay Science 283
(I see the exclamation point ratio is even higher than before)

Is this the stuff that Edwin Muir was reading while he was working in the bonyard? Hmph, if it's my neighbors, I suspect they'll be nagging the governor to declare them a disaster area so they can get federal aid.

Bleah. Cocoa ready yet?

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