“This is how strength is measured: to know how to carry your life through a world where there is no longer meaning, truth, purpose, law, justice, or causality, and at the same time not lose the very will to live.”
— Julius Evola, ‘Theory of the Absolute Individual’ (1927)
Plutarch records a young Spartan named Isidas, leaping from his house naked and oiled the second Thebans hit the city, slipping into a kind of war trance, cutting through them alone in something close to Diomedes aristeia & coming out the other side without a single wound.