the soul of the white ant

'Beloved, you are going to suffer a great loss. Instead of living in this glowing sunlight, you are going to spend your days in absolute darkness. Instead of the citizenship of the wild veld, instead of the freedom of the air, of mountains, trees and plains, you are going to spend your days as a prisoner in a narrow vault, in whose confines you will be unable to make the least movement...But in place of all this, you yourself will become a far more important and wonderful being...You will become the feeling, the thinking, the seeing of a life a thousand times greater and more important than yours...'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Soul-White-Eugene-Marais/dp/0980297656/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350841294&sr=8-1