TRP and 'everything connects"?

[Mark Kohut]

Neitzsche's "The Gay Science", intro to, by Walter Kaufmann.

1st, I remember at least one good essay by some scholar on how Nietzsche's "Birth
of Tragedy" influenced TRP. A book in which N said he 'tried to look at science in the perspective
of the artist".....

kaufmann writes of Nietsche's verbal embrace of the southern type---Mediterranean region---against
the northern....'that unity of singer, knight and free spirit which distinguishes the wonderful early
culture of the Provencal" and the wandering poets.......Remember TRP singling out Waddell's
Wandering Scholars in Slow Learner?....poets of the Middle Ages were
"detectors and delineators of occult symmetries" ...

and the title The Gay Science 'is "meant to be anti-German", anti-professorial and anti-academic 
and was also to suggest 'dancing' ,laughter and ridicule of 'the spirit
of gravity"...............