sed magis amica veritas.

I have done my deed, Electra, and that deed was good. I shall bear it on my shoulders as a carrier at the ferry carries the traveller to the farther bank. And when I have brought it at the farthest bank I shall take stock of it. The heavier it is to carry, the better pleased I shall be; for that burden is my freedom. Only yesterday I walked the earth haphazard; thousands of roads I tramped that brought me nowhere, for they were other men's roads. Yes, I tried them all; the haulers' tracks along the riverside, the mule-paths in the mountains, and the broad, flagged highways of the charioteers. But none of these was mine. To-day I have one path only, and heaven knows where it leads. But it is my path...

Yesterday, when I was with Electra, I felt at one with Nature, this Nature of your making. It sang the praises of the Good—your Good—in siren tones, and lavished intimations. To lull me into gentleness, the fierce light mellowed and grew tender as a lover's eyes. And, to teach me the forgiveness of offences, the sky grew bland as a pardoner's face. Obedient to your will, my youth rose up before me and pleaded with me like a girl who fears her lover will forsake her. That was the last time, the last, I saw my youth. Suddenly, out of the blue, freedom crashed down on me, and swept me off my feet. Nature sprang back, my youth went with the wind, and I knew myself alone, utterly alone in the midst of this well-meaning little universe of yours. I was like a man who's lost his shadows. And there was nothing left in heaven, no Right or Wrong, nor anyone to give me orders.

Foreign to myself—I know it. Outside nature, against nature, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself. But I shall not return under your Law; I am doomed to have no other law but mine. Nor shall I come back to Nature, the nature you found good; in it are a thousand beaten paths all leading up to you—but I must blaze my own trail. For I, Zeus, am a man, and every man must find out his own way. Nature abhors man, and you too, god of gods, abhor mankind.

long time no see, quería mandarte esto. yo postee sobre esto pero me extraña lo poco que se viraliza, tiene un olor a culo todo esto.