"'I often
think that he's the only on of us who's achieved immortality.
I don't
mean in a sense that he won't die some day. But he's living it. I think he is
what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But
they die with every day that passes. When you meet them, they're not what you
met last. In any given hour, they kill some part of themselves. They change,
they deny, they contradict—and they call it growth. At the end there's nothing
left, nothing unreversed of unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity,
only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass. How do
they expect permanence which they have never held for a single moment? But
Howard—one can imagine him existing forever.'"
Steven Mallory from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
There is
something so heroic about being a hero. I can no longer be a hero. Its tough
being a hero in life. Hercules.....give me life back....
Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Do ya feel your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?
---- Hero of the day, Metallica, Load, 1997
