Odd Reflections on Heroism

--he was doomed, like millions, to flee from wisdom and be hero.

Lost Horizons

Could I, I thought, be the last coward on earth?
How terrifying!...All alone with two million stark raving heroic madmen,
armed to the eyeballs...
Journey to the End of the Night

Image from: "Das ist Heldentum!," Illustrierter Beobachter, 21 January 1943, pp. 2-3.