Vulgar words in Thus Spake Zarathustra - A book for all and none (Page 1)
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When he was just midway across, the little door opened once more, and a gaudily-dressed fellow like a buffoon sprang out, and went rapidly after the first one.
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Sombre is human life, and as yet without meaning: a buffoon may be fateful to it.
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he that spake was the buffoon from the tower.
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It was thy good fortune to be laughed at: and verily thou spakest like a buffoon.
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And when he had said this, the buffoon vanished; Zarathustra, however, went on through the dark streets.
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Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,-and the people glory in their great men!
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The rest: these are always the great majority, the common-place, the superfluous, the far-too many-those all are cowardly!- Him who is of my type, will also the experiences of my type meet on the way: so that his first companions must be corpses and buffoons.
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But only a buffoon thinketh: "man can also be OVERLEAPT."
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Right on the path which he was about to descend came two kings walking, bedecked with crowns and purple girdles, and variegated like flamingoes: they drove before them a laden ass.
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Two kings do I see-and only one ass!"
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To him do we convey this ass.
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There is one that must first come, -One who will make you laugh once more, a good jovial buffoon, a dancer, a wind, a wild romp, some old fool:-what think ye?
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And verily, it is the strangest thing in a wise man, if over and above, he be still sensible, and not an ass."
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Oh, how sad the buffoons of the populace seem to me to-day!
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it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass.
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And thou thyself, thou old pope, how is it in accordance with thee, to adore an ass in such a manner as God?
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even thou couldst well become an ass through superabundance of wisdom.
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Then, however, did it come to pass that Zarathustra, astonished at such merely roguish answers, jumped back to the door of his cave, and turning towards all his guests, cried out with a strong voice: "O ye wags, all of you, ye buffoons!
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-A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow your souls bright.
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Forget not this night and this ass-festival, ye higher men!
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And should ye celebrate it again, this ass-festival, do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me!
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That may be the case, or it may be otherwise; and if in truth the ass did not dance that evening, there nevertheless happened then greater and rarer wonders than the dancing of an ass would have been.
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The man who does not laugh, like the man who does not make faces, is already a buffoon at heart.
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This belief in faith, if one can so express it without seeming tautological, has certainly been restored to them, and in the first flood of their enthusiasm they use it by bowing down and worshipping an ass!
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It is well known that they were supposed not only to be eaters of human flesh but also ass-worshippers, and among the Roman graffiti, the most famous is the one found on the Palatino, showing a man worshipping a cross on which is suspended a figure with the head of an ass (see Minucius Felix, "Octavius" IX.
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Now, with regard to the actual service and Ass-Festival, no reader who happens to be acquainted with the religious history of the Middle Ages will fail to see the allusion here to the asinaria festa which were by no means uncommon in France, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.
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He is therefore highly pleased that the higher men have all blossomed forth; they therefore require new festivals,-"A little valiant nonsense, some divine service and ass-festival, some old joyful Zarathustra fool, some blusterer to blow their souls bright."