I’m headed off for the weekend, going to visit friends and see Andrew in play. Should be good times.

And now, for no reason other than that I feel like it (and perhaps because my recent use of the word “decadence” put me in mind of it), I will leave you with a quote about Nietzsche.

Nietzsche was a lover of life but a hater of most of us who live it because we did not — do not — live it properly, fully, with appropriate abandon, with delight and with mastery, the way a dancer may leap and spin and even look askance, exulting in her total control of eyelash and limb.

From William H. Gass’s essay “The Trouble with Nietzsche”, published in the August 2005 issue of Harper’s.

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