I am Spartacus

It’s not the despair, I can stand the despair…It’s the hope I can’t stand. (John Cleese-Clockwise)

Do you like gladiator movies?

Also, as heard from an ageing guitarist in a Dublin pub toilet at 2.00 in the morning. “well technically I should be drunk too, but I went to bed at lunchtime”.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is now my duty to advise you on how you should vote when you retire from this court. In the last few weeks we have all heard some pretty extraordinary allegations being made about one of the prettiest, about one of the most distinguished politicians ever to rise to high office in this country – or not, as you may think. We have heard, for example, from Mr Bex Bissell – a man who by his own admission is a liar, a humbug, a hypocrite, a vagabond, a loathsome spotted reptile and a self-confessed chicken strangler. You may choose, if you wish, to believe the transparent tissue of odious lies which streamed on and on from his disgusting, greedy, slavering lips. That is entirely a matter for you. Then we have been forced to listen to the pitiful whining of Mr Norma St.John Scott – a scrounger, parasite, pervert, a worm, a self-confessed player of the pink oboe; a man, or woman who by his, or her, own admission chews pillows!
(Peter Cook)

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism. It is also what is called subjectivity, the name we are labeled with when charges are brought against us. But what do we mean

“There is no reality except in action.” Moreover, it goes further, since it adds, “Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.”

THE principle of this psychoanalysis is that:
man is a totality and not a collection. Consequently he expresses himself as a whole in even his most insignificant and his most superficial behavior. In other words there is not a taste, a mannerism, or a human act which is not revealing.

Existentialism and Human Emotions. Contributors: Jean Paul Sartre – author. Publisher: Philosophical Library. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1957