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Posted by Adryan Linden on 3/28/2007, 8:11 am, in reply to "Re: Zarathustra Prologue 8" --Previous Message--
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Intresting. But can't it also be that the ref. to the dog may be a ref. to N. fysical pain and the philosofical school of Antisthenes?
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: The buffoon is the first appearance of the
: spirit of gravity, the dwarf, a great but
: foolish w e3ight above him (the buffoon is
: above him in the tower) Even though the
: buffoon disappears, its only his voice that
: disappears, reappearing as the dead dog. Its
: notable in another way that the dead man
: becomes a dead dog; it is a symbol of the
: death of companionship. Time and again we
: see that Zarathustra is most alone, and
: hungry, when not just good but finally even
: evil deserts him.
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: This passage is notable bescause we start to
: get glimpses of Zarathutra that are
: indistinguishable from N. Its always the
: lonely passages wherein this effect
: manifests the most, and also where we get to
: the bare bones of his thoughts and the
: processes involved in their formation. His
: best humour is usually found where N is
: seeming to feel his person start to emerge
: in the character of Z. In contemplating the
: intense and hurried circumstances in which
: TSZ was written its easy to see how
: important these little 'self appearances'
: were to a writer in the the long and rapt
: hours of creativity as contrapuntals. We can
: almost hear him laugh with surprise outloud
: as he discovers himself. It may be that this
: dead man on Zarathustra's shoulder had, in
: Nietzsche's mind, Nietzsche's own face. He
: cares for him as we do our own past selves
: in order to preserve what is good in them
: from the constant thought predators, but
: also becuase others often feel very attached
: to us according to what we ourselves may be
: dead to within us; they may be willing to be
: in our presence only due to that (thus the
: old man seems to have more time for the
: corpse than for Zarathustra). The key to
: Nietzsche's loneliness, and hence his rare
: creativity, lies right there I think.
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