2902622bpm Nietzsche was among those who saluted

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THAT
ALL-CONQUERING CORSICANCAN,
DUE TO WHOM 'MAN HAS AGAIN BECOME MASTER
OVER THE BUSINESSMAN AND THE PHILISTINE' ànd,
more importantly, over women pampered by 'modern ideas'!?
From across Europe, educated young men, suffering from the growth of aspirations,
in Byron's words, 'beyond the fitting medium of desire', rushed to fight for Greece's independence,
the Spanish Civil War of its day (and often died as swiftly & futilely as Byron himself)! Thousands of European
young men also went to South America to fight for soul-stirring but poorly understood causes. Eugene Onegin
in Pushkin's verse novel, the first of the many 'superfluous' men in Russian fiction, wears a tony 'Bolivar' hàt ànd possesses a statuette of Napoleon ànd a portrait of Byron (Pushkin, looking for a model freedom fighter in exile in the year of Byron's death, alighted on the Prophet Mohammed in hìs cycle of poems, IMITATIONS OF THE QURAN)! Russia, trying to catch up with the West, massproduced spiritually unmoored youth with a quasi-Byronic conception of freedom, further inflated by German Romantics, but living in the
most uncompromising conditions in which to realise it. Rudin in Turgenev's eponymous novel is one of such 'wandering outlaw
of his own dark mind'! He wants to surrender himself 'eagerly, completely' to 'some nonsense or other', and ends up dead
on a Parisian barricade in 1848! Even the cossetted English poet Arthur Hugh Clough was moved to note the new burdens
of longing and irresolution in AMOURS DE VOYAGE, a verse novel based on the writer's own troubled journey through
Europe in 1848-9, in which the protagonist decides against plunging into the struggle for Italian freedom: I DO NOT
LIKE BEING MOVED: FOR THE WILL IS EXCITED; AND ACTION IS A MOST DANGEROUS THING; I TREMBLE FOR
SOMETHING FACTITIOUS, SOME MALPRACTICE OF HEART AND ILLEGITIMATE PROCESS.
Díe líjsten zíjn schíer éindeloos: huursoldaten haast overal, 'red RIFRAF armies', Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, UN,
CHINA, KOREA, JAPAN, VIETNAM, LAOS, CAMBODJA, THAILAND, INDONESIA AND
THE PHILIPPINES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, BANGLADESH, INDIA, SRILANKA,
THE COUNTLESS ARABS AND AFRICANS, MENSEN- & WAPENHANDEL,
REFUGEES, VLUCHTELINGEN, PVV ETCETERARA,
LE PENS, FRANCO, SALAZAR,
BURLESQUONI, DUTERTE
A.S.O.!
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