Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich NietzscheNow, however, am I out of service, without master, and him who stood before him. Zarathustra however seizedyet not free; likewise am I no longer merry even for an the hand of the old pope and regarded it a long whilehour, except it be in recollections.with admiration.Therefore did I ascend into these mountains, that I “Lo! thou venerable one,” said he then, “what a finemight finally have a festival for myself once more, as and long hand! That is the hand of one who hath everbecometh an old pope and church-father: for know it, dispensed blessings. Now, however, doth it hold fast himthat I am the last pope!—a festival of pious recollectionsand divine services.It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who saith: ‘Who iswhom thou seekest, me, Zarathustra.Now, however, is he himself dead, the most pious of ungodlier than I, that I may enjoy his teaching?’”-men, the saint in the forest, who praised his God constantlywith singing and mumbling.the thoughts and arrear-thoughts of the old pope. AtThus spake Zarathustra, and penetrated with his glancesHe himself found I no longer when I found his cot— last the latter began:but two wolves found I therein, which howled on accountof his death,—for all animals loved him. Then did lost him most—:“He who most loved and possessed him hath now alsoI haste away.—Lo, I myself am surely the most godless of us atHad I thus come in vain into these forests and mountains?Then did my heart determine that I should seek —”Thou servedst him to the last?” asked Zarathustrapresent? But who could rejoice at that!”—another, the most pious of all those who believe not in thoughtfully, after a deep silence, “thou knowest HOW heGod—, my heart determined that I should seek died? Is it true what they say, that sympathy chokedZarathustra!”him;Thus spake the hoary man, and gazed with keen eyes at —That he saw how man hung on the cross, and could233