“Cassandra, foreseeing not the end of Troy, but the end of everything that came after Troy. The victory of Greece remains the most important victory of our history; it not only inspired the first text of Western literature but perhaps is the very text of ‘the West’ itself. This victory, prefigured in the mad rants of the woman who defied the god of truth, could not have been won if anyone had listened to Cassandra. But then again, she did not die before she took her madness into the heart of Greece: it echoed through Agamemnon’s palace, through Aeschylus’s Oresteia, continued as shout and murmur through literature. Nonetheless, the book that frames these screams is called (defiantly perhaps?) a science, and gay.” MadnessSanityNietzscheCassandra Book:The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche Source: The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche