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  1. Friedrich Nietzsche _ Beyond Good and Evil

    I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
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  2. Hugo Drochon _ Nietzsche's Great Politics

    See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last man {London: Penguin, 1993}. Note the often-overlooked second part where Fukuyama criticizes the end of history as leading to the last man.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Carry on, Jeeves

    You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
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  4. Matthew Strecher _ Haruki Murakami's The Wind-up

    We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".
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  5. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Tereza keeps appearing before my eyes. I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles. Another image also comes to mind: Nietzsche leaving his hotel in Turin. Seeing a horse and a coachman beating it with a whip, Nietzsche went up to the horse and, before the coachman's very eyes, put his arms around the horse's neck and burst into tears.That took place in 1889, when Nietzsche, too, had removed himself from the world of people. In other words, it was at the time when his mental illness had just erupted. But for that very reason I feel his gesture has broad implications: Nietzsche was trying to apologize to the horse for Descartes. His lunacy {that is, his final break with mankind} began at the very moment he burst into tears over the horse.And that is the Nietzsche I love, just as I love Tereza with the mortally ill dog resting his head on her lap. I see them one next to the other: both stepping down from the road along which mankind, "the master and proprietor of nature," marches onward.
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  6. C.G. Jung _ Man and His Symbols

    I myself found a fascinating example of this in Nietzsche's book Thus Spake Zarathustra, where the author reproduces almost word for word an incident reported in a ship's log for the year 1686. By sheer chance I had read this seaman's yarn in a book published about 1835 {half a century before Nietzsche wrote}; and when I found the similar passage in Thus Spake Zarathustra, I was struck by its peculiar style, which was different from Nietzsche's usual language. I was convinced that Nietzsche must also have seen the old book, though he made no reference to it. I wrote to his sister, who was still alive, and she confirmed that she and her brother had in fact read the book together when he was 11 years old. I think, from the context, it is inconceivable that Nietzsche had any idea that he was plagiarizing this story. I believe that fifty years later it has unexpectedly slipped into focus in his conscious mind.
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