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Posted by Adryan Linden on 3/26/2007, 6:50 pm, in reply to "Zarathustra Prologue 8" --Previous Message-- Or just what happens with prophet of any kind... : And when he had said this, the buffoon Does he? In Islam same ethics of helping starving people exist, so is Zarathstra appealing to a muslim set of ethics or just the etichs of trying to satifying his own needs? :
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: When Zarathustra had said this to his heart,
: he put the corpse upon his shoulders and set
: out on his way. Yet had he not gone a
: hundred steps, when there stole a man up to
: him and whispered in his ear--and lo! he
: that spake was the buffoon from the tower.
: "Leave this town, O Zarathustra,"
: said he, "there are too many here who
: hate thee. The good and just hate thee, and
: call thee their enemy and despiser; the
: believers in the orthodox belief hate thee,
: and call thee a danger to the multitude. It
: was thy good fortune to be laughed at: and
: verily thou spakest like a buffoon. It was
: thy good fortune to associate with the dead
: dog; by so humiliating thyself thou hast
: saved thy life to-day. Depart, however, from
: this town,--or tomorrow I shall jump over
: thee, a living man over a dead one."
:
: [Here the buffoon says that Zarathustra
: could be the next rope dancer, victim
: perhaps of excessive, misplaced
: self-confidence if he stays on in the town
: that is becoming hostile towards him. The
: buffoon could symbolize this danger of going
: too far. Th.]
:
: vanished; Zarathustra, however, went on
: through the dark streets.
: At the gate of the town the grave-diggers
: met him: they shone their torch on his face,
: and, recognising Zarathustra, they sorely
: derided him. "Zarathustra is carrying
: away the dead dog: a fine thing that
: Zarathustra hath turned a grave-digger! For
: our hands are too cleanly for that roast.
: Will Zarathustra steal the bite from the
: devil? Well then, good luck to the repast!
: If only the devil is not a better thief than
: Zarathustra!--he will steal them both, he
: will eat them both!" And they laughed
: among themselves, and put their heads
: together.
:
: Zarathustra made no answer thereto, but went
: on his way. When he had gone on for two
: hours, past forests and swamps, he had heard
: too much of the hungry howling of the
: wolves, and he himself became a-hungry. So
: he halted at a lonely house in which a light
: was burning.
:
: "Hunger attacketh me," said
: Zarathustra, "like a robber. Among
: forests and swamps my hunger attacketh me,
: and late in the night.
:
: "Strange humours hath my hunger. Often
: it cometh to me only after a repast, and all
: day it hath failed to come: where hath it
: been?"
:
: And thereupon Zarathustra knocked at the
: door of the house. An old man appeared, who
: carried a light, and asked: "Who cometh
: unto me and my bad sleep?"
:
: "A living man and a dead one,"
: said Zarathustra. "Give me something to
: eat and drink, I forgot it during the day.
: He that feedeth the hungry refresheth his
: own soul, saith wisdom."
: [Recalls Matthew 25 I think: " For I
: was hungry and you gave me food, I was
: thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger
: and you welcomed me..." "'Amen, I
: say to you, whatever you did for one of
: these least brothers of mine, you did for
: me.'" Amazing! Zarathustra's spirits
: must be so low that he is appealing to the
: Christian sense of ethics of the in-keeper
: to get food! Th.]
: The old man withdrew, but came back
: immediately and offered Zarathustra bread
: and wine. "A bad country for the
: hungry," said he; "that is why I
: live here. Animal and man come unto me, the
: anchorite. But bid thy companion eat and
: drink also, he is wearier than thou."
: Zarathustra answered: "My companion is
: dead; I shall hardly be able to persuade him
: to eat." "That doth not concern
: me," said the old man sullenly;
: "he that knocketh at my door must take
: what I offer him. Eat, and fare ye
: well!"--
:
: Thereafter Zarathustra again went on for two
: hours, trusting to the path and the light of
: the stars: for he was an experienced
: night-walker, and liked to look into the
: face of all that slept. When the morning
: dawned, however, Zarathustra found himself
: in a thick forest, and no path was any
: longer visible. He then put the dead man in
: a hollow tree at his head--for he wanted to
: protect him from the wolves--and laid
: himself down on the ground and moss. And
: immediately he fell asleep, tired in body,
: but with a tranquil soul.
:
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