
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Heraclide Incense Is the Most Real Thing
The Heraclide incense is the most real thing and so yeah we kind of already talked about this in the preface but just thought it's worth bringing up again here I'm gonna gloss over the rest of the paragraph here even though it's kind of fun reference to the classical Volpurgus Knight from Faust. He says you know so thoroughly has he been pampered by his optimistic views that he no longer wants to have anything whole with all of nature's cruelty attaching to itSo he no longer dares and trusts himself to the terrible icy current of existence he runs timidly up and down the bank.
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