Shashank's Bookshelf

“I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Overman!”                                              -Zarathustra, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.  (All rights reserved by Penguin Classics. I have used this cover for fair use.)   (Previously published in a now defunct website. Some changes have been made to the original article.) Thus spake Zarathustra to the congregation of saintly men in the town of the Motley Cow, a clever euphemism that Nietzsche uses to eschew severe austerity and stoicism.  Thus Spoke Zarathustra is considered to be the magnum opus of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical works. Written and published in four phases between 1883 and 1885, although this piece, akin to many of Nietzsche’s literature, did not bring fame and fortunes t...

As I had previously opined, I have ventured into the field of writing. I have already established the reasons as to why I chose this path. Today, I shall disseminate what my eBook entails. It says that some lamp is dying, right? Care to guess which lamp?  It is quite obvious and conspicuous; Alas! Humans always accept falsity as truth and deny it when they actually confront it. This "lamp" is the LAMP OF HUMANITY.  You are at liberty to interpret this statement in the manner convenient to you. For me, it simply refers to the warmth within our heart--'tis slowly smothering and dying out.  What have we become? Nothing but a being consumed entirely by its vices: greed, gluttony, avarice and pride. Our desires, ravenous and insatiable, threaten our volatile existence. The indifference that they have inundated us with swings the Damocles' Sword before our eyes.  WAR This section deals with WAR. I do not wish to ascribe to it a conforming definition; WAR  refers to co...