Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Thus Spake Zarathustraforeboding touched his heart and transformed him. Sorrowfullydid he go about and wearily; and he became like hidden in it and encaged, and doth not yet fly above itA riddle is it still unto me, this dream; the meaning isunto those of whom the soothsayer had spoken.— on free pinions.Verily, said he unto his disciples, a little while, and All life had I renounced, so I dreamed. Night-watchmanand grave-guardian had I become, aloft, in the lonethere cometh the long twilight. Alas, how shall I preservemy light through it!mountain-fortress of Death.That it may not smother in this sorrowfulness! To remoterworlds shall it be a light, and also to remotest vaults of those trophies of victory. Out of glass coffinsThere did I guard his coffins: full stood the mustynights!did vanquished life gaze upon me.Thus did Zarathustra go about grieved in his heart, and The odour of dust-covered eternities did I breathe: sultryand dust-covered lay my soul. And who could havefor three days he did not take any meat or drink: he had norest, and lost his speech. At last it came to pass that he aired his soul there!fell into a deep sleep. His disciples, however, sat around Brightness of midnight was ever around me; lonesomenesscowered beside her; and as a third, death-rattlehim in long night-watches, and waited anxiously to see ifhe would awake, and speak again, and recover from his stillness, the worst of my female friends.affliction.Keys did I carry, the rustiest of all keys; and I knewAnd this is the discourse that Zarathustra spake when how to open with them the most creaking of all gates.he awoke; his voice, however, came unto his disciples as Like a bitterly angry croaking ran the sound throughfrom afar:the long corridors when the leaves of the gate opened:Hear, I pray you, the dream that I dreamed, my friends, ungraciously did this bird cry, unwillingly was it awakened.and help me to divine its meaning!128