From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:27:09 -0500
Subject: Trees, Birth, and the Will to Power - rhizome and escape from the circle


>Starting simply enough, what is
>the will to power and what does Nietzsche mean through the symbolism of the
>tree and birth?

We do not see the symbolism of the Tree - or of any other metaphor.  The
becoming-child is not arborescent, but rhizomatic.  In the words of N
you quote - " a self propelled wheel-you shall create a creator". The
circle is arborescent, the flight rhizomatic.  One proscribes Life to
the past as repetition of the same.  But it is a mystical illusion.  The
same never repeats.  The other, well...that is another story.

LC


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