...and terms that, in development, would become Crane's major poetic work half a dozen or more years on: Nobody can build you the bridge over which you must cross the river of life, nobody but you alone. True, there are countless paths and bridges and demigods that would like to carry you across the river,...

...with the world: for the later Foucault it is to care for the self. For both Nietzsche and Foucault: "Nobody can build you the bridge over which you must cross the river of life, nobody but you alone" (Nietzsche 1983, 129). Foucault's own position on the self is stated quite clearly (Foucault 1984a)....