From: "Widder,NE" <N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: For those of you who know your German.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:22:28 -0000



> I`m probably the last who should comment on this, as neither German nor
> English is my first language, but the teacher almost surely was referring
> to "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche". Usually, it is used to describe a style of
> government which rules both by cajooling and coerction. It has nothing to
> do with Nietzsche or his words >Du gehst zu Frauen ? Vergiss` die Peitsche
> nicht."
> 
> sincerely
> -Yamazaki
> 
	Thanks.  This is helpful.  But given the connections Nietzsche makes
with truth being a woman and nature being a woman, and says none of them can
be treated in any straightforward way, why exactly does the saying have
nothing to do with him?

	Nathan
	n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk