SHADOW ROME~BALLAD OF THE ANTI-CHRIST

This episode is an interlude in a broader series. It features a character’s soliloquy, which was principally inspired by Dostoevsky’s Notes from Undergound and Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ.

To ask whether the character reflects the views of the author is to miss the point - He belongs to a tradition far older than the author. To ask for explanations, justifications, interpretations is also to miss the point; for the words here belong to a character, who - to my surprise - ended up having a mind of his own