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>it didnt happen because it already happened in crime and punishment
<it happened because neetzsche read crime and punishment
<> it necessarily must have happened

>>19157047
it's an old russian proverb he heard somewhere, perhaps from lou salome. it didnt organically arise from his "thinking" or character.
lots of zarathustra chapters rely on stolen material, like the "become hard", which is originally from a folk tale about the landgrave of thuringia, louis II, which he probably heard from wagner, who was genuinely interested in these tales.
>The blacksmith, as he worked the iron in his forge, complained about the people's plight and cursed the nobility, lamenting that their lord was too soft towards them, and addressed the iron as if it were the landgrave himself
>"Landgraf, werde hart!" (German: "Landgrave, become hard!" or "Landgrave, take a stance!")

assume that everything badass about nietzsche's writings is just a reé-flection, mimicry. the remaining philosophy leads straight to horserino and george floyderino. musil predicted this, when his nietzschean protagonist "man without qualities" gets obsessed with clemency for a serial killer.

>the three great stimulantia of the exhausted: the brutal, the artificial, and the innocent (idiotic)

Nietzsche on opium enemas

>20/10/1870.
>After afflicting my body for several days with opium- and tannin-enemas and silvernitrate, the first danger was eliminated. After a week I was able to leave Naumburg, but I'm not healthy yet.

> July-August 1882.
>brightest consciousness and leaden heaviness and immobility after opium.

>Letter to Paul Rée and Lou Salomé: circa December 20, 1882.
>Tonight I will take so much Opium that I lose my mind: where is still a man one could worship! But I know you all through and through. Do not worry too much about the outbreaks of my megalomania or injured pride: and if one day I should take my life because of the the aforementioned affects, I wouldn't need to be pitied that much.

>To this, I think, sensible understanding of the situation I come after I have taken a tremendous dose of opium - from despair. But instead of losing my mind, it seems to come to me finally. By the way, I was really ill for weeks...

> 20/10/1870.
>After afflicting my body for several days with opium- and tannin-enemas and silvernitrate, the first danger was eliminated. After a week I was able to leave Naumburg, but I'm not healthy yet.