Abraham Kanovitch
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 48
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... OBSESSION Thus did Zarathustra hear a soothsayer speak; and the foreboding touched his heart and transformed him. Sorrowfully did he go about and wearily; and he became like unto those of whom the soothsayer had spoken.-- Thus did Zarathustra go about grieved in his heart, and for three days he did not take any meat or drink: he had no rest, and lost his speech.--"Then did a roaring wind tear the folds apart: whistling, whizzing, and piercing, it threw unto me a black coffin.--And a thousand caricatures of children, angels, owls, fools, and childsized butterflies laughed and mocked, and roared at me." Thus did Zarathustra relate his dream, and then was silent: but the disciple whom he loved most arose quickly, seized Zarathustra's hand and said: "Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of death? Art thou not thyself the coffin full of many-hued malices and angel-caricatures of life?" Thus spake the disciple; and all the others then thronged around Zarathustra, grasped him by the hands, and tried to persuade him to leave his bed and his sadness, and return unto them. Zarathustra, however, sat upright on his couch, with an absent look. Like one returning from long foreign sojourn did he look on his disciples, and examined their features; but still he knew them not. When, however, they raised him and set him upon his feet, behold, all on a sudden, his eye changed; he understood everything that had happened, stroked his beard, and said with a strong voice: "Well! this hath just its time; but see to it, my disciples, that we have a good repast, and without delay! Thus do I mean to make amends for bad dreams! The soothsayer, however, shall eat and drink at my side: and verily, I will...