Encyclopaedia Brittanica, requiescat in pace ...

[Bled Welder]

When I read this last night I didn't know why you mentioned Stefan Zweig or how I knew the name, the five minutes later I was reading a Kaufmann Preface on Nietzsche and he quotes at length Zweig's descriptions of Nietzsche, in his lonely cold room writing, and his arsenal pills and potions, including his favorite, chloral hydrate, which was indicated by an account form Salome, who dissed Nietzsche of course then later dater Freud or whatever, who of course got his 'ego' via Nietzsche.
Anyway, I always had the immpression that Nietzsche self-proclaimed vast suffering was natural.  Here he was simply an addict!  Unable to move from bed or sofa for days?  Migraines, unstoppable vomiting, gastrointestinal madness?  It's called detoxing, baby!  Shet I guess I really Am an overman, right?

> From: against.the.dave at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:32:00 -0500
> Subject: Re: Encyclopaedia Brittanica, requiescat in pace ...
> To: igrlivingston at gmail.com
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, bummer. Sore bummer for all those kids who don't get to grow up
> > lost in those volumes.
> 
> I eventually read the 1973 World Book Encyclopedia in its entirety.
> So far as I'm concerned, Richard M. Nixon is still president and
> Beirut is "The Paris of the Mideast."  I was the first--and only--kid
> on my block who knew who Stefan Zweig was:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchmendel ...
 		 	   		  
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