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The everlasting [h ou r gl a s s ] of ex i s t e n c e will ever be t u r n e d [agai n ] and [y ou ] with it, [you ] speck o f du s t . " Wou l d [you ] now not throw [yourself] down and g na s h your tooth and cu rs e the demon [wh o sp oke thu s ] ? Or have [you ] on c e experi enced a tre m e ndous second for those who might hav e a n s w e re d h i m , " [You are ] a god, a n d by no means have I h eard something m ore divine ! " If th i s inspiration ac qui crimson strength over you as you're, it is going to remodel you, and maybe overwhelm [you] ; the que st i on in regards to every and each thi n g : " [D o you ] wish th i s once again and als o for i n nu merable instances ? " could [weigh upon you r activities because the maximum burden ] . O r h o w good vulnerable wou ld y o u h a v e to turn into t o you rself and t o l i fe to lengthy for not anything extra arden tly than this (u lti m at e ] everlasting sanction and seal ? eighty three ' NIET Z S C H E S G I F T For a few reas ons th is i s an important pas sage. In th e first position, the pleased S cience i s the booklet publi shed earlier than hence S p oke Zarathus tra and it really is good famous that secti ons 34 1 and 342 are overtu res to the later publication. In secti on 34 1 Nietzsche introduces the everlasting recurrence and that i n 342 he intro duces Zarathustra in a piece titled " I ncipit Tragode ia" which b e g i n s w i t h the s a m e p a s s age that o p e n s Th u s S p o okay e Zarathus tra . really obvi ously then those sections, whi ch i n troduce th e principal i dea and dramati s pers o nae, give you the fabric upon wh ich therefore S p oke Zarathustra i s a me ditation. In Joyfu l S cience Ni etzsch e argues that any nice publication should be h el d jointly through one valuable i dea; everlasting recurrence i s th e important i dea of therefore S p o okay e Zara therefore tra , and Zarathustra is its instructor. through watchi ng those two-idea and educate er-develop jointly we gai n th e fi na l n e ce s s ary key for i n terp reti n g T h u s S p o okay e Zarathus tra . allow us to then attend to the fabric i n secti on 34 1 which offers the key puzzle that b oth Nietzsche's greates t b o o okay , Th u s S p o okay e Z a ra th u s t ra , a n d - i n a v e ry d i ffer e n t directi on-h is notes attempted t o s olve. The part tel ls u s that, as with Des cartes, a demon will provide us our significant try out; he'll current us with the i dea that we, all our event, each pai n, everythi ng wretched, every little thing noble needs to recur many times via out eternity. once we are awarded with thi s i dea, and Ni etzsch e makes th is particularly transparent, the key challenge becom es no longer one among speculative cosmology i n which we strive against with th e obje ctive fact worth o f the proposed doctrine by way of as ki ng i f it truly is an a ccu price des cripti on of th e nature of items; fairly, the matter is that of th e effe ct of a trust in eter nal recurrence upon our experie nce . the matter i s to not convey th e theoreti cal conditi o n s u n der w h i c h th e doctrine needs to be acknowledged to be real, yet to teach what foll ows from accepting the assumption as real.