2/4/06 From reading (not theatre)...

"... the eternal and exclusive process of becoming, the utter evanescence of everything real, which keeps acting and evolving but never is, as Herclitus teaches us, is a terrible and stunning notion. Its impact is most closely related to the feeling of an earthquake, which makes people relinquish their faith that the earth is firmly grounded. It takes astonishing strength to transpose this reaction into its opposite, into sublime and happy astonishment."
-- Nietzche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (quoted in Mishra, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World)