File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9808, message 112


Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 06:45:12 GMT
From: cornets-AT-2005.bart.nl (cornets de groot)
Subject: Re: On-line reading


>Now I go alone, my disciples, You, too, go now, alone.  Thus I want it.
>	Go away from me and resist Zarathustra!  And even better: be ashamed of
>him!  Perhaps he deceived you.
>	The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be
>able to hate his friends.
>	One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. 
>And why do you not want to pluck at my wreath?
>	You revere me; but what if your reverence _tumbles_ one day?  Beware
>lest a statue slay you.
>	You say that you believe in Zarathustra?  But what matters
>Zarathustra?  You are my believers- but what matter all believers?
>	You had not yet sought yourselves; and you found me.  Thus do all
>believes; therefore all faith amounts to so little.
>	Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have all
>denied me will I return to you.


You thought perhaps some poetry would do your own sycophantic job for you?
By citing these words you already took the sting out of your sweet sunset
swatting "massacre". Either you have no sense of timing, or no respect, or
no understanding.

RC



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