Gale’s convinced the Capitol does it on purpose, rigs the drawings to add extra drama.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Hermetic quote Collins Fire drama

Consider also:

  1. “Saint, hero, and poet are all inspired; the difference is that saint and hero work in their “… own flesh and blood and not in paper or parchment…” (PASL, 333). Their very lives are works of art, because they have permanently found the anti-self, and so, live in an inspired ecstasy. The poet lives in the tension between inspiration and the workaday world. According to this theory, the ecstatic state of mind, immersion in the anti-self, allows the daimon to inspire the artist.”
  2. “Edward expects things from this world…he holds it to a standard. Such people may have a kind of power in them. They can be creatures of great kindness, or great malice. Their expectations give them deep roots, deep sense of self.”
  3. “The problem of Cagliostro will not be solved by our historians until they study the true nature of man in its normal and abnormal aspects, when they may, perhaps, discover the fact that two personalities may inhabit one physical organism, and that a man may, perhaps, be a Cagliostro at one time and a Balsamo at another.”
  4. “Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich,” the slogan reads, or, “Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.”
  5. ‘Please!’ I say. ‘Remove the crown from my head! I no longer want to be the torturer and the tortured! Take it off! Take it off!’ ‘I cannot,’ she says. ‘You have to remove your crown yourself.’ ‘But how?’ I protest. ‘I have no awareness of it. I don’t know where I end and it begins.’