RE: another hedgehog: der Blutegel (Zarathustra)

If blood is for you sthing poetical, as it was for him
who wrote with it, read on, if not, it doesn't matter
much what you do.

http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127103/Nietzsche_thus_spake_zarathustra/IV_64.html

Zarathustra, in the 4th book, thinking of heavy things,
steps, as mostly in such a case, on a living being.
It appears to be 'the conscientous of mind', who is lying
like a dog on the slithery bottom of a swamp, offering his
arm to the leeches underground. He studies their BRAIN.

The biggest sucker of blood, which he is lucky to meet
today, is Zarathustra himself: "Gewissens-Blutegel
Zarathustra." Zarathustra, the leech of conscience.

With the Germanics leech was almost synonymous with
healer. After the dark period of modern medical
superstition and hybris, the leech seems now on its
way back again.

rene


Gewissensbiss - prick, bite of conscience (the snake;
the leech is a variant of the worm)
SuZ: Gewissen-haben-wollen, the call of conscience.


As to Ariosto, i'm not interested in polemics, although
his attack was not the least treacherous.
I noticed 2 inconspicious points: first that i would
offer subjectivist stances. This is only said to
save him his. Nietzsche's reply to "But it is all
subjective" is: no, that precisely not, for there is no
subject. So the reproach presupposes.
The other is: the US is still stable. But this is not the
US i was talking of. I was talking of a fruit of Hesperia.
The stronger they actually are, the more rotten the fruit.
Just notice the red line: the massive killing of Semites,
and you can't go wrong.

Without secret supports like these the entire rhetorics
crumbles. The only thing interesting is the mechanism
of searching for and accusing the one explaining it.

thanks for the bite, it strengthens.

rene


















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