In Satan's Honour

We have heard it said that “beauty is only skin deep,” but let's go deeper.

I am reading a book called Irrational Man- A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett. In it he states:

“The roots of a thing always go deeper into the soil than our vision of the plant above the surface would lead us to imagine...”

Life is short.

This fact becomes more real as you grow older. During the teenage years, you feel as if you will live forever. Your mortality is not something you think about, nor want to think about. Death is for the elderly- for grandparents and old movie stars. It's not for you—or so you want to believe.

But as the years go by, your muscles b...