Prometheus Is Reaching Out For The Stars

...the Temptation, Which Consisted Of A Single Word Written On The Cemetary Of The Defeated: Sleep.

...the Crimes Of Violence Committed For Selfish, Personal Motives Are Historically Insignificant Compared To Those Committed Ad Majorem Gloriam Dei, Out Of A Self-sacrificing Devotion To The Flag, A Leader, A Religeous Faith Or Political Conviction.

Death Tripped Down The Corridor, Changing Step, Struck Out Here And There, Danced Pirouettes; Often I Felt His Breath On My Face When He Was Miles Away; Often I Fell Asleep And Dreamed While He Stood Leaning Over My Bed.

Innovation Is A Twofold Threat To Academic Mediocrities: It Endangers Their Oracular Authority, And It Evokes The Deeper Fear That Their Whole, Laboriously Constructed Intellectual Edifice Might Collapse.

The Most Persistent Sound Which Reverberates Through Man's History Is The Beating Of War Drums.