| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: bloodshot setting. But the time has come at last. Never again
shall their passion insult me, or their fury degrade me in slavish
terror. There he lies; there at my mercy, the man who for fifteen
years has made God's light a shame to me, and His darkness a
terror. The end has come at last,--the only end possible, the only
end left me. On his head be the blood and the crime! God
almighty, I am not guilty! The end has come; I can bear my burden
no farther.
"Beareth all things, endureth all things."
Where have I heard those words? They are in the Bible; the precept
of charity. What has that to do with me? Nothing. I heard the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: Evremond, who reproached him for his ESPRIT VASTE, and even
Voltaire, the last echo of the century) cannot and could not so
easily appropriate--whom they scarcely permitted themselves to
enjoy. The very decided Yea and Nay of their palate, their
promptly ready disgust, their hesitating reluctance with regard
to everything strange, their horror of the bad taste even of
lively curiosity, and in general the averseness of every
distinguished and self-sufficing culture to avow a new desire, a
dissatisfaction with its own condition, or an admiration of what
is strange: all this determines and disposes them unfavourably
even towards the best things of the world which are not their
Beyond Good and Evil |
