File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 7


From: "Burton, Walter" <WBurton-AT-pipestream.com>
Subject: RE: ehh?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:50:34 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frans Agterbosch [mailto:f.agterbosch-AT-wxs.nl]
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 1:48 PM
> To: nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: ehh?
> 
> I find the story of his illness very weird...i never heard much about
it
> i mean....was he really ill..or did he become a new born...and all we
> saw was his object..his body....maybe it was the wyth of the circle?
> (oh oh my poor englisch...)...i wonder....i wander...

This fascinates me too.  I've seen video of clinical schizophrenics in
the throws of supposed dementia, and while the narrator is rambling
about dopamine and drug-therapy, I'll here fantastically sensitive and
insightful commentary coming from the "maniac" in the background.  

It's amazing how many N. historians have summarily condemned the
accounts of his "decline" as fact.  There is very little academic
speculation about the true nature of his "removed state."  

And as well there should be little determined interest, I suppose, for
it's merely sensational trivia.  


\\/alter



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