Robert Girvan | Essays and Poetry 

Nietzsche, Chamfort, Socrates, Jesus, and Blade Runner     Daily, the slings and arrows of outrageous - or really irritating - fortune arrive. How to respond? What to be - broken, bronzed, or radically open? I had occasion, quite by accident or perhaps serendipity, to reflect again on these questions recently. On Christmas Day, I reread the following quote in  The Gay Science , by Nietzsche, in Part Two, aphorism # 95, purporting to be the last words of the French writer Ch