Reason #1,487 why I want to have Montaigne's retroactive 16th-century love-child:

"I give my soul now one face, now another, according to which direction I turn it. If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. All contradictions may be found in me by some twist and in some fashion. Bashful, insolent; chaste, lascivious; talkative, taciturn; tough, delicate; clever, stupid; surly, affable; lying, truthful; learned, ignorant; liberal, miserly, and prodigal: all this I see in myself to some extent according to how I turn; and whoever studies himself really attentively finds in himself, yes, even in his judgment, this gyration and discord. I have nothing to say about myself absolutely, simply, and solidly, without confusion and without mixture, on in one word."

why I want to have Martin Walkyier's retroactive 20th century love-child

"Behind the painted grease-paint smiles
hide faces never known to grin
Men who will feed you to the lions
for having different thoughts or skin

And when we realize that we've made
a state to last a thousand years
our pleas for help will not be heard
because there's no one left to hear"

Skyclad - "Gammadion Seed"

"I could sail by on the winds of silence, and maybe they won't notice.. but this time I think it'd be better if I swim"

Dream Theater - "The Silent Man"