Re: Truth and Poetry

Steven E. Callihan (callihan@callihan.seanet.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:52:06 -0700 (PDT)

Leonardo Raggo wrote:

>[...]
>No hagiographics needed
>here to abjudicate some academic glass bead game that decides poetic
>priority. No matter for approval either that overthrows this pantheon in
>these extravagant gestures to which I append a citation further along in
>the same section;
> "The psychological problem in the type Zarathustra is how he that says
>No and does No to an unheard-of degree, to everything to which one has so
>far said Yes, can nevertheless be the opposite of a No-saying spirit"

And from Will to Power 617:

"Zarathustra adopts a parodistic attitude toward all former values as a
consequence of his abundance."

S.

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