Status Updates From Die Toten Seelen: Erzählung

"...so long as no high rank is present, Prometheus remains Prometheus, but should there appear someone ever so slightly senior to him, Prometheus undergoes a metamorphosis such as Ovid himself could never imagine: he becomes a fly, less than a fly, he is reduced to a grain of dust!"

“Yes, readers of this book, none of you really care to see humanity revealed in its nakedness. "Why should we do so?" you say. "What would be the use of it? Do we not know for ourselves that human life contains much that is gross and contemptible? Do we not with our own eyes have to look upon much that is anything but comforting?”