• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    doesn’t matter if you read it or not, it never makes much sense until it does and then you are basically beyond mentioning it in polite conversation

    (you know who has read it and who hasn’t after you have read it)

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      7 hours ago

      I tried to read it, but I was filtered by the first chapter being a rant about how no one wanted to buy his books. (I think it’s Genealogy that does that?)

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      (you know who has read it and who hasn’t after you have read it)

      By the hollow look in the eyes of the ones who have read his works?

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        3 hours ago

        “What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!”

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          I resent the fact that I read him and understood what he was saying.

          What I wouldn’t give for the blissful ignorance of those for whom his works are just word salad or the insane ramblings of a deranged lunatic…

          I would trade my soul for that, only I already lost my soul by reading and understanding Nietzsche.

          They should really put his books in the “restricted section,” sealed with an ouroboros, and a warning that says “the words contained herein are dangerous. Discretion is advised.”