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"O Imitators, slavish herd, how often your noise Has stirred my anger, how often stirred my laughter!"
[O imatatores, seruom pecus, ut mihi saepe bilem, saepe iocum uestri mouere tumultus!]
Horace, Epistles, Book I, Epistle XIX [Qui sibi fidet, dux reget examen; I lead my own way.]

Keiichi Okabe [Nier] — Kaine Salvation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDKam_hmGM

"Who made MAN, with powers which dart him from earth to heaven in a moment—that great, that most excellent,
and most noble creature of the world—the miracle of nature, as Zoroaster in his book Peri Physeis called him
—the SHEKINAH of the divine presence, as Chrysostom—the image of God, as Moses—the ray of divinity, as Plato—
the marvel of marvels, as Aristotle ——–to go sneaking on at this pitiful—pimping—pettifogging rate?
I scorn to be as abusive as Horace upon the occasion——– but if there is no catachresis in the wish, and no sin in it,
I wish from my soul, ... that there was a good farcical house, large enough to hold—aye—and sublimate them,
shag-rag and bob-tail, male and female, all together: and this leads me to the affair of Whiskers——–but, by what
chain of ideas—I leave as a legacy in mort main to Prudes and Tartufs, to enjoy and make the most of."
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. V, Chapter 1.

Position 2WEI — Funeral March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdqNZT_w3Q8

"I discovered the rules of their game were purely arbitrary. Therefore I naturally oriented myself to the basic reality
of the situation, and when I came up at bat I hit the pitcher and the catcher over the head. Later I discovered that all
human ethics and morals are exactly the same sort of —"
Philip K Dick, Null-O (1958), The Philip K. Dick Reader, Citadel Press, 1997.

These sealed vault installations were pointedly designed to destroy first Andromeda galaxy & later the universe.