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Posted by Thomas on 3/19/2007, 4:55 pm Sombre is human life, and as yet without meaning: a buffoon may be fateful to it. Gloomy is the night, gloomy are the ways of Zarathustra. Come, thou cold and stiff companion! I carry thee to the place where I shall bury thee with mine own hands.
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The overman is the meaning of life that Zarathustra teaches. Here he says that the rope-dancer fell because his life lacked meaning. So caution is one thing, but a deep sense of meaning is essential too, to cross the rope. The rope-dancer went too fast, and too casually. Like a dilettante.
I'm convinced that the death of God has indeed lead to a potential lack of meaning, and that the overman is a new form of transcendence (a this-worldly, immanent form of transcendence.)
Thomas
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Meanwhile the evening came on, and the market-place veiled itself in gloom. Then the people dispersed, for even curiosity and terror become fatigued. Zarathustra, however, still sat beside the dead man on the ground, absorbed in thought: so he forgot the time. But at last it became night, and a cold wind blew upon the lonely one. Then arose Zarathustra and said to his heart:
Verily, a fine catch of fish hath Zarathustra made to-day! It is not a man he hath caught, but a corpse.
[This of course points to John 21:19 :"And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." Zarathustra has not yet achieved Jesus' success. His first strategy of 'preaching' has failed. Th.]
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud--man.
But still am I far from them, and my sense speaketh not unto their sense. To men I am still something between a fool and a corpse.
[A fool because the people thought he was crazy, a corpse because they could have attacked and killed him? Th.]
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