The Artiste

A righteous cause is a wonderful thing. Intangible, but it provides so much, a sense of reason, a point of meaning, a figure to focus on, a goal to accomplish. There are those out there who hold such a thing, who have this ideal in their hearts, and use it as the catalyst for their own wars, for their own endeavours, to reach their goals, to fight their fights. Then there are those who simply do because they enjoy. Sometimes this is a rare type of evil, evil for evil’s sake, and then other times, it’s for the art, it’s for the sheer joy of being the best, of being a true Artiste, and this is where we meet our man. They have no righteous cause; they have no murdered family to seek revenge for...View all