[lbo-talk] Nietzsche Selection

Tim tim_boetie at fastmail.fm
Fri Jun 8 20:25:10 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 18:07 -0400, ravi wrote:
> Sorry old chap, but that was a bad move. The man was literally off
> the wall starting about 1888, and Twilight of the Idols, IIRC, was
> right at the onset. If you had to dabble in "late" then Ecce Homo
> would have been a better choice, IMHO.

Although "Ecce Homo" is hardly _not_ off the wall. Not that that's a bad thing - who wouldn't love a book with chapters called "Why I am so Clever," "Why I am so Wise" and "Why I Write Such Great Books"?

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"Boredom is the threshold to great deeds."

-- Walter Benjamin



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