heterophenomenological

To will means to keep oneself in a state of exasper-

ation and fever at any cost. The effort is exhausting,

nor does it appear that man can sustain it indefinitely.

To believe it is his responsibility to transcend his

condition and tend toward that of the superman is to

forget that he has trouble enough sustaining himself

as man, and that he succeeds only by straining his

will, that mainspring, to the maximum. And the will,

which contains a suspect and even disastrous prin-

ciple, turns against those who abuse it. To will is not

natural-or more exactly, one must will just enough

to live; as soon as one wills less than that, or more,

one either breaks down or runs down. If lack of will

is a disease, the will itself is another, and a much

worse one, for it is from the will and its excesses

rather than from its failures that all man’s miseries

derive. But if he already wills to excess in his present

state, what will become of him once he accedes to

the rank of superman? He will doubtless explode and

fall back upon himself. So that it is by a grandiose

detour that he will then be led to fall out of time in

order to enter the infra-eternity, ineluctable conclu-

sion where it matters little, ultimately, whether he

arrives by decay or by disaster.