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...like, erected in memory of the dead." Neitzche, you may remember, pronounced the Almighty's demise. Does Johnson concur? Some, for their own nefarious political purpose, may insinuate that he shares the philosopher's conviction. These ill-wishers may remind the voters of that compelling syllogism from Thus Spake Zarathustra: "If there were Gods, then how could I bear to be no God. Therefore, there are no Gods...
...Revenge. Nietzsche was soon tamed. Lou took him on soulful walks through the woods, discussing the great themes of life; but whenever Nietzsche proposed an earthier relationship, Lou balked. She soon left him for the more placid Ree; the embittered Nietzsche, so Peters says, wrote his prose-poem Thus Spake Zarathustra to express his resentment of all womankind. Ree, however, fared no better than Nietzsche. For five years he lived with Lou as "brother and sister" and was known among his friends as Lou's "maid of honor." Nothing better expressed the relationship of the two philosophers...
...Then spake the Lord unto his servant Argaman and said: "Behold I shall smite the people of Babylon, for they know me not. They shall be consumed in a cloud of fire, every man, woman, and child. Yea, even their great hall I will destroy. I shall make of Babylon a desolation, and there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth...
...Song IV is from Friedrich Nietzsche's "O Man! Take Heed!" from Thus Spake Zarathustra: One! O Man! Take heed! Two! What speaks the deep midnight! Three! "I slept, I slept-" Four! "From deep dream I awoke:" Five! "The world is deep," Six! "And deeper than...
...idea of an ever upward-rushing elan vital or life force; from Nietzsche he took the belief that "man is a bridge and not an end," and that his task is to surpass himself. Saviors of God is couched in the form and style of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra-ecstatic, apocalyptic, hortatory, an exclamation-marked salute to man's destiny...