“A prince ought also to show himself a patron of ability, and to honour the proficient in every art.” The Prince

I am going to tell you something you must not tell to any human being. We have split the atom. The report of the great experiment has just come in. A bomb was let off in some wild spot in New Mexico. It was only a thirteen-pound bomb, but it made a crater half a mile across. People ten miles away lay with their feet towards the bomb; when it went off they rolled over and tried to look at the sky. But even with the darkest glasses it was impossible. It was the middle of the night, but it was as if seven suns had lit the earth; two hundred miles away the light could be seen. The bomb sent up smoke into the stratosphere... It is the Second Coming. The secret has been wrested from nature. Never Give In!

I, too, am a poor, weak dog that needs a little warmth and food, and would occasionally like to feel the nearness of his own kind Demian

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. Book III