Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

of some kind of unconsciousness (of an animal).
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All animals are criminal, even the horse, even the swan (aimless beauty, no longer
flies anywhere): there is a fear of the swan.
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The sea: (the river’s attempt to attain totality? The Caspian Sea speaks for that). In
any case there are stations of the river and resting points.
The sea under clouds: That is the ocean, the Black Sea, the North Sea. –
Nietzsche’s face: Here are the heaviest, blackest, sheerly the darkest portentous
clouds: incapacity for lightness.
The neurasthenic seeks artificial totality by going to the sea; the criminal seeks
artficial unity. (Totality from outside, unity from outside.)
The neurasthenic also has a present (transient; the criminal has no present).
Nothing can be so beautiful as man; nothing so ugly!
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