2 Essays for Essa

Nietzsche and Palahniuk under one book cover? Why not—taking for a precedent the Old and New Testaments crammed into one Bible. Nietzsche revealed many bitter truths here, but he also consoled us with an elegiac, incidental thought: individually, each of us imagines themselves a Caesar, a Napoleon, or a Ramses… but together, we are just a meek, easily controlled herd. Which helps us digest Chuck's… whatchamacallit… baa?