n/a: The opening post...

“The states in which we infuse a tranfiguration and fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life: sexuality; intoxication; feasting; spring; victory over an enemy, mockery; bravado; cruelty; the ecstacy of religious feeling. Three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication, cruelty--all belonging to the oldest festal joys of mankind, all also preponderate in the early artist.”

--Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power #801