Part One: Herostratus Even the Temple of great Artemis Shall bow before the tempest of my intrepidity! Judge me o highest Ephesean authorities! Execute me, forsake me and curse my name! Silence all voices in this void of lustre Yet nothing can divide me from my fame! “What matter the victims, provided the gesture is beautiful?” Perhaps my life was a stargazer’s life But my acts were a sermon against escapism The ardency burning my vigorous soul Turning all prudence into joyful unreason Not even the threat of damnatio memoraie Can’t prevent the fiery glory-seeker From trying to kiss the feet of true eternity: For death is for the weak, oblivion for the weaker I never desired less than to become the Alpha and the Omega... ...I now admit I should desired to become even more… Stepping on untouched soil gives the mob a reason To pull down the explorer and call him a heretic And perhaps what doesn’t kill ye, makes ye stronger Yet now the fate is sealed and the days are numbered ...For God is only an idea made up to inspire us in overwhelming it! Locked in a candle-lightened chamber And diving into the depths of myself Still I create my absonant music The monument I built for my love “What matters the death of vague human beings, If thereby the individual affirms himself?” Part Two: The Fall of the Antagonist Although the Fall was prolonged It seems that Sardanapalus’s fate can’t be avoided What a satisfaction for the most miserable ones And what a ease for all their slave-holders Is to spit on my face and trample me with their dirty feet To see the herd affirm itself in crushing the individual Despite how deep I fell, In the worst Abyss there’s one solace, One truth no one can deny And this is it: “I have not been and I became I am and I’m glad that I am I will be and I shall stay remembered forever As THE ANTAGONIST” “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how Art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the Nations For thou had said in thine heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will Exalt my throne above the stars of God I will seat also upon the mount Of the congregation, in the side of the north. I will ascend above the Height of the cloud, I will be like the most High…” – Isaiah 14:12–17