Fritz Nietzsche on truth

[Meg Larson]

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> From: Paul Murphy <paul.murphy at utoronto.ca>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Fritz Nietzsche on truth
> Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 12:48 PM
> 
> Meg Larson writes:
> 
> >Hi Thomas.  I got the quote, which is from "On Truth and Lies In a
Nonmoral
> >Sense" from a ridiculously expensive book called _The Rhetorical
Tradition:
> >Readings from Classical Times to the Present_ by Bizzell and Herzberg. 
"On
> >Truth . . ." is actually from _Philosophy and Truth: Selections from
> >Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870s_ (1979).  Hope this helps.
> >Just love that Freiddy!!!
> 
> The quote can also be located in the much less expensive Viking/Penguin
> _Portable Nietzsche_, edited and translated by Walter Kaufmann.  WK
renders
> the title "On Truth and Lies in an Extra-moral Sense". The essay itself
is
> indeed a fragment from FN's voluminous Nachlass material.
>
Thanks for the additional info, Paul.  The selection as it appears in _TRT_
was translated by one Daniel Breazeale, but I will definitely check out
Kaufmann.
 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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>           toward his face, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean."
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