HW It is the business...quote

John Majka flossbac at WCIC.ORG
Tue Feb 3 07:54:22 EST 1998


Someone was asking about the origin of the Calvert quote:  "It is the
business of the future to be dangerous."  In terms of Hawkwind, this quote
first appeared in the In Search of Space log book.  I should point out
however that the quote is virtually directly from Nietzsche, found in "Thus
Spoke Zarathustra".  When I first read the Hawkwind log, I laughed and
laughed because I recognized the quote and I thought Calvert was being
terribly funny, by hijacking this sentence and putting it into a spacerock
contest.  Calvert was a witty guy!  The trouble is that now I can't remember
if Nietzche wrote "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" or if
the word "future" was substituted by something else (such as "ubermensche"
or something).  Does anyone know for certain?  My memory gets fuzzier over
time...
John Majka
flossbac at wcic.org



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