![]() ![]() ![]() At all events the essential condition of its production was a second birth within me- of the art of hearing. The whole of Zarathustra might perhaps be regarded as music. ![]() Looking back now I find that exactly two months before this inspiration I had an omen of its coming in the form of a sudden and decisive change in my tastes-more particularly in music. That day I happened to be wandering through the woods beside the Lake of Silvaplana and 1 halted not far from Surlei beside a huge pyramidal block of stone. I made a note of the idea on a sheet of paper with the postscript: "Six thousand feet beyond man and time”. The fundamental idea of the work, the Eternal Recurrence, the highest formula of a life affirmation that can ever be attained was first conceived in the month of August 1881. I now wish to relate the history of Zarathustra. ![]()
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