Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival.

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At length, in the middle of their feast, Zarathustra bursts in upon them and rebukes them soundly. But he does not do so long; in the Ass-Festival, it suddenly occurs to him, that he is concerned with a ceremony that may not be without its purpose, as something foolish but necessary—a recreation for wise men. 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.” He tells them not to forget that night and the ass-festival, for “such things only the convalescent devise! And should ye celebrate it again,” he concludes, “do it from love to yourselves, do it also from love to me! And in remembrance of ME!”

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. 3. INTRODUCTION BY MRS FORSTER-NIETZSCHE. 4. Chapter LVII.). For the present let it suffice for us to know that he 5. PART I. THE PROLOGUE. 6. Chapter I. The Three Metamorphoses. 7. Chapter II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue. 8. Chapter IV. The Despisers of the Body. 9. Chapter IX. The Preachers of Death. 10. Chapter XV. The Thousand and One Goals. 11. Chapter XVIII. Old and Young Women. 12. Chapter XXI. Voluntary Death. 13. Chapter XXII. The Bestowing Virtue. 14. Chapter XXIII. The Child with the Mirror. 15. introduction to “The Genealogy of Morals” (written in 1887) he finds it 16. Chapter XXIV. In the Happy Isles. 17. Chapter XXIX. The Tarantulas. 18. Chapter XXX. The Famous Wise Ones. 19. Chapter XXXIII. The Grave-Song. 20. Chapter XXXIV. Self-Surpassing. 21. Chapter XXXV. The Sublime Ones. 22. Chapter XXXVI. The Land of Culture. 23. Chapter XXXVII. Immaculate Perception. 24. Chapter XXXVIII. Scholars. 25. Chapter XXXIX. Poets. 26. Chapter XL. Great Events. 27. Chapter XLI. The Soothsayer. 28. Chapter XLII. Redemption. 29. Chapter XLIII. Manly Prudence. 30. Chapter XLIV. The Stillest Hour. 31. PART III. 32. Chapter XLVI. The Vision and the Enigma. 33. Chapter XLVII. Involuntary Bliss. 34. Chapter XLVIII. Before Sunrise. 35. Chapter XLIX. The Bedwarfing Virtue. 36. Chapter LI. On Passing-by. 37. Chapter LII. The Apostates. 38. Chapter LIII. The Return Home. 39. Chapter LIV. The Three Evil Things. 40. Chapter LV. The Spirit of Gravity. 41. Chapter LVI. Old and New Tables. Par. 2. 42. Chapter LVII. The Convalescent. 43. Chapter LX. The Seven Seals. 44. PART IV. 45. Chapter LXI. The Honey Sacrifice. 46. Chapter LXII. The Cry of Distress. 47. Chapter LXIII. Talk with the Kings. 48. Chapter LXIV. The Leech. 49. Chapter LXV. The Magician. 50. Chapter LXVI. Out of Service. 51. Chapter LXVII. The Ugliest Man. 52. Chapter LXVIII. The Voluntary Beggar. 53. Chapter LXIX. The Shadow. 54. Chapter LXX. Noontide. 55. Chapter LXXI. The Greeting. 56. Chapter LXXII. The Supper. 57. Chapter LXXIII. The Higher Man. Par. 1. 58. Chapter LXXIV. The Song of Melancholy. 59. Chapter LXXV. Science. 60. Chapter LXXVI. Among the Daughters of the Desert. 61. Chapter LXXVII. The Awakening. 62. Chapter LXXVIII. The Ass-Festival. 63. Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song. 64. Chapter LXXX. The Sign.

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