I’ve finished Beyond Good and Evil again, and as always it was a new book.

I’ve been furiously thematizing and cross-referencing. Some of the more interesting threads of thought:

• Shiller’s “The Veiled Statue at Sais” vs the nakedness of Dionysus
• The character of the philosopher and the poet
• Thinking as surface, mask, simplification, “Woman” – as a yin counterpart to yang being (Dasein)

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Nietzsche’s last book, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, was just a bunch of inter-illuminating passages selected from older works sequenced to create a portrait of Wagner as the epitome of the late romantic. My blog and wiki follow this method.