Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzschecrying with a frightful voice, and acting as if some one wheeze, shalt thou,—but speak unto me! Zarathustrastill lay on the couch who did not wish to rise. Zarathustra’s calleth thee, Zarathustra the godless!voice also resounded in such a manner that his animals I, Zarathustra, the advocate of living, the advocate ofcame to him frightened, and out of all the neighbouring suffering, the advocate of the circuit—thee do I call, mycaves and lurking-places all the creatures slipped away— most abysmal thought!flying, fluttering, creeping or leaping, according to their Joy to me! Thou comest,—I hear thee! Mine abyssvariety of foot or wing. Zarathustra, however, spake these speaketh, my lowest depth have I turned over into thewords:light!Up, abysmal thought out of my depth! I am thy cock Joy to me! Come hither! Give me thy hand—ha! let be!and morning dawn, thou overslept reptile: Up! Up! My aha!—Disgust, disgust, disgust—alas to me!voice shall soon crow thee awake!Unbind the fetters of thine ears: listen! For I wish to2.hear thee! Up! Up! There is thunder enough to make thevery graves listen!HARDLY, HOWEVER, HAD Zarathustra spoken these words,And rub the sleep and all the dimness and blindness when he fell down as one dead, and remained long as oneout of thine eyes! Hear me also with thine eyes: my voice dead. When however he again came to himself, then wasis a medicine even for those born blind.he pale and trembling, and remained lying; and for longAnd once thou art awake, then shalt thou ever remain he would neither eat nor drink. This condition continuedawake. It is not my custom to awake great-grandmothers for seven days; his animals, however, did not leave himout of their sleep that I may bid them—sleep on! day nor night, except that the eagle flew forth to fetchThou stirrest, stretchest thyself, wheezest? Up! Up! Not food. And what it fetched and foraged, it laid on199