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The Metaphysical Writing on the Wall (and Desks)

Harvard Graffiti

"Jesus loves you, praise him!"

"I wish he taught Chem 20 and Ec 10."

"The last Christian died on the cross."

"Wake up, people. God is dead. Let us dispense with Christian morality, and prepare ourselves for the arrival of supermen."

"If God exists, that's his problem."

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"God only exists in minds weak enough to look for Him."

"Vengeance will be mine, sayeth the Lord."

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Pop culture and philosophy also find their way into the Harvard libraries, although not always in a comprehensible form:

"Things are more like they are now than ever before."

"What??"

In addition to inevitable tributes to Bob Dylan, "the Boss," and Elvis Costello, more daring individuals mix music with their theory:

"Haydn's hidin' but Bach is back. Roll over, Beethoven and mosey on, Mozart, (though Handel can handle it) cause Crye is the rage--(Giuseppe Verdi is just Joe Green to you and me)."

"Dead is Hendrix is God. Hendrix is God. Nietzsche was right!"

"Death to the industrial-minded Communists. Long live the Kantian Liberal-moralists...and Led Zeppelin. Pantheism is the way!"

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