“Afternoon sir! My, what an excellent question!” He says in response, before signaling off the ships captain. “Do influence, wealth and experience not seek to achieve the same goal? An enlightened version of one’s self and lifestyle? Nay – For I have too much humility to waste life on one such as myself. Knowledge and power: Those which supersede the obtainable and govern our existence. I seek not to control them, but merely observe their existence, so I may pave a path towards greater liberation and intellectual transcendence!”
The silence festers between them, before Zarathustra adjusts his cuffs, and remarks “Ah! But I am rambling. And a man with distinction such as yourself has little time for the quibbles and troubles of the common scribe. Tell me if you may good sir, where may I find vacancy so I may rest from my exhausting journey?” The rather fiendish, yet friendly smile under his hood reflects clearly from the waterways below them.
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