登陆注册
5289700000075

第75章 LVI. OLD AND NEW TABLES.(1)

1.

Here do I sit and wait, old broken tables around me and also new half-written tables. When cometh mine hour?

--The hour of my descent, of my down-going: for once more will I go unto men.

For that hour do I now wait: for first must the signs come unto me that it is MINE hour--namely, the laughing lion with the flock of doves.

Meanwhile do I talk to myself as one who hath time. No one telleth me anything new, so I tell myself mine own story.

2.

When I came unto men, then found I them resting on an old infatuation: all of them thought they had long known what was good and bad for men.

An old wearisome business seemed to them all discourse about virtue; and he who wished to sleep well spake of "good" and "bad" ere retiring to rest.

This somnolence did I disturb when I taught that NO ONE YET KNOWETH what is good and bad:--unless it be the creating one!

--It is he, however, who createth man's goal, and giveth to the earth its meaning and its future: he only EFFECTETH it THAT aught is good or bad.

And I bade them upset their old academic chairs, and wherever that old infatuation had sat; I bade them laugh at their great moralists, their saints, their poets, and their Saviours.

At their gloomy sages did I bid them laugh, and whoever had sat admonishing as a black scarecrow on the tree of life.

On their great grave-highway did I seat myself, and even beside the carrion and vultures--and I laughed at all their bygone and its mellow decaying glory.

Verily, like penitential preachers and fools did I cry wrath and shame on all their greatness and smallness. Oh, that their best is so very small!

Oh, that their worst is so very small! Thus did I laugh.

Thus did my wise longing, born in the mountains, cry and laugh in me; a wild wisdom, verily!--my great pinion-rustling longing.

And oft did it carry me off and up and away and in the midst of laughter;then flew I quivering like an arrow with sun-intoxicated rapture:

--Out into distant futures, which no dream hath yet seen, into warmer souths than ever sculptor conceived,--where gods in their dancing are ashamed of all clothes:

(That I may speak in parables and halt and stammer like the poets: and verily I am ashamed that I have still to be a poet!)Where all becoming seemed to me dancing of Gods, and wantoning of Gods, and the world unloosed and unbridled and fleeing back to itself:----As an eternal self-fleeing and re-seeking of one another of many Gods, as the blessed self-contradicting, recommuning, and refraternising with one another of many Gods:--Where all time seemed to me a blessed mockery of moments, where necessity was freedom itself, which played happily with the goad of freedom:--Where I also found again mine old devil and arch-enemy, the spirit of gravity, and all that it created: constraint, law, necessity and consequence and purpose and will and good and evil:--For must there not be that which is danced OVER, danced beyond? Must there not, for the sake of the nimble, the nimblest,--be moles and clumsy dwarfs?--3.

There was it also where I picked up from the path the word "Superman," and that man is something that must be surpassed.

--That man is a bridge and not a goal--rejoicing over his noontides and evenings, as advances to new rosy dawns:

--The Zarathustra word of the great noontide, and whatever else I have hung up over men like purple evening-afterglows.

Verily, also new stars did I make them see, along with new nights; and over cloud and day and night, did I spread out laughter like a gay-coloured canopy.

I taught them all MY poetisation and aspiration: to compose and collect into unity what is fragment in man, and riddle and fearful chance;----As composer, riddle-reader, and redeemer of chance, did I teach them to create the future, and all that HATH BEEN--to redeem by creating.

The past of man to redeem, and every "It was" to transform, until the Will saith: "But so did I will it! So shall I will it--"--This did I call redemption; this alone taught I them to call redemption.--Now do I await MY redemption--that I may go unto them for the last time.

For once more will I go unto men: AMONGST them will my sun set; in dying will I give them my choicest gift!

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches,----So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with GOLDEN oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it.--Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables--half-written.

4.

Behold, here is a new table; but where are my brethren who will carry it with me to the valley and into hearts of flesh?--Thus demandeth my great love to the remotest ones: BE NOT CONSIDERATE OFTHY NEIGHBOUR! Man is something that must be surpassed.

There are many divers ways and modes of surpassing: see THOU thereto! But only a buffoon thinketh: "man can also be OVERLEAPT."Surpass thyself even in thy neighbour: and a right which thou canst seize upon, shalt thou not allow to be given thee!

What thou doest can no one do to thee again. Lo, there is no requital.

He who cannot command himself shall obey. And many a one CAN command himself, but still sorely lacketh self-obedience!

5.

Thus wisheth the type of noble souls: they desire to have nothing GRATUITOUSLY, least of all, life.

He who is of the populace wisheth to live gratuitously; we others, however, to whom life hath given itself--we are ever considering WHAT we can best give IN RETURN!

And verily, it is a noble dictum which saith: "What life promiseth US, that promise will WE keep--to life!"One should not wish to enjoy where one doth not contribute to the enjoyment. And one should not WISH to enjoy!

For enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things. Neither like to be sought for. One should HAVE them,--but one should rather SEEK for guilt and pain!--6.

O my brethren, he who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. Now, however, are we firstlings!

同类推荐
  • Shelley

    Shelley

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 大丹篇

    大丹篇

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 宋论

    宋论

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 佛说持世陀罗尼经

    佛说持世陀罗尼经

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 佛祖统纪宋

    佛祖统纪宋

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
热门推荐
  • 驭兽王妃很倾城

    驭兽王妃很倾城

    寄人篱下,连下人脸色都要看的可怜虫?懦弱自卑还被人毁了脸?太子为悔婚,不择手段,后母更是处心积虑地要她死。委曲求全却还是遭了暗算?还能不能再窝囊点啊!穿越醒来,还发现有一个俊美得一塌糊涂的男人在自己身上趴着……前世兽医,今生掌握了驭兽之术!天赐金手指,驭三千凶兽,围攻太子府,从一堆猛兽中揪出太子,冷笑着说:“不是你不要我,而是我要休了你!”虎啸,狼吼、鹰啼。率千万兽军,整家魑,弄权朝。一身红装覆了天下皇权,谁说女子不如男?那个俊美得一塌糊涂的男子,如深渊的黑眸中包裹着一点幽蓝,对着她道:“天下给你,但,你给我。”她笑了,万千凶兽都可以驯服,她就不信驯服不了他!【情节虚构,请勿模仿】
  • 三千神格

    三千神格

    误入天界神狱的无名之人,为了找寻失去的记忆重返人界。前方是破碎的过往,后方是天界的追杀,身侧还有一个亦敌亦友的“司马懿”形影不离。当神与人之间的鸿沟被逾越,禁忌的火种公然于天下,这个世界迎来的将是被拉下神坛的神,还是泯灭人性的人?
  • 妖王抢妃:废材魂师要逆天

    妖王抢妃:废材魂师要逆天

    她是一名异能者,拥有杀伤力极强的雷电,却落到被人解剖做实验的地步!一场爆炸,她成为逐月皇朝的“天才”。十年没有长进,痴痴傻傻,分家小姐处处刁难,皇宫的凶杀谜案……竟然全都将凶手指向她!她,该如何在这个帝国立足?一次意外激发魂力,她不再是软柿子。金尊魂师?NO,NO,NO,她是九星元素师!浑身雷光,所向无敌,御兽斗智,不在话下!谁知半路杀出了一个妖孽美男硬要立她为妃,靠,赶紧跑啊!美男奸笑:跑不过我,就从了我吧。某腹黑女瞥眉:早告诉你了,本姑娘不是你的菜!某男妖孽一笑:我的小名就叫菜菜。某女一听,晕阙过去……【读者群:﹏葵花殿堂°548738502;微信公众号:kuiqi77】
  • 误惹总裁大人

    误惹总裁大人

    “我真是世界上最不幸的美少女啊~”从小学开始就经常不顾他人的冒冷汗自称美少女的点点,终于在25岁的时候遭遇了她人生中的滑铁卢——被相恋6年的男友甩掉了。过了一段浑浑噩噩的日子之后,终于从以前的天真慢慢蜕变成如今的冷静与理智。虽然平时还是会一副看起来天真浪漫的样子O__O”…失恋失业的她是如何成功获得事业与爱情的呢?事业:“你之前的两份工作都做得这么短,又已经快1年没工作了,我们很难相信你的忠诚度和能力的。”面试官面无表情地说道。“请您听我细细道来(吧啦吧啦2分钟后)因此,我相信我是能够胜任贵公司的这一份工作的。您给的一次机会,我将付出我十分的回报!”点点露出了她标志性的单边梨涡笑。其实,她的另一个身份是……
  • 惊天暴动

    惊天暴动

    一条活鱼摆在面前不同的厨师可以弄出不同的味道,同样一个重大的历史题材,由于作者选材角度、语言风格的不同,其艺术效果也就不一样。天国史料浩如烟海,各种各样的记载名目繁多,单纯去看那些资料会感到头疼。如何形象地再现那段历史,较为真实合理的刻画人物和事件,是我几十年的追求。
  • 虚舟普度禅师语录

    虚舟普度禅师语录

    本书为公版书,为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品,供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。
  • 调皮的孩子是块宝

    调皮的孩子是块宝

    亨利·福特在晚年回忆录中写道:“小时候,由于调皮,没少让父母担忧,可是,他们从来不给我压力。我今天的成就与他们的教育是密不可分的!”只要孩子不是经常有出自愤怒、残忍或怀有恶意的、会使人身体受到伤害的调皮行为,家长都应当大度一些、宽容一些。从孩子的成长过程来看,调皮是孩子不断走向成熟的必要“演出”。如果每一位家长能正确地对待孩子的调皮行为,并辅之以科学的指导,那么你那调皮的孩子没准就是下一个亨利·福特!
  • 重生之微雨双飞

    重生之微雨双飞

    曾经她自私势利,错把后母当亲人,最后却眼睁睁地看着未婚夫和妹妹步入婚姻的殿堂。再次重生回到十年前,涅槃重生,她要亲手逆转自己的人生!救护自己的亲弟弟,争做高考状元,闯出自己的事业,爸爸想要认回她?后母想再利用她?门都没有!
  • 帝君的绝世毒妃

    帝君的绝世毒妃

    上官婉茹,常胜将军之女,帝君爱她入骨,本说好的一生一世一双人在这帝宫中一天天消磨殆尽,他的不得已,好,她理解,他的无可奈何,好!她忍让。可最终都逃不过这帝宫的争斗。“阿晨,早知如此你可有后悔过”“婉茹,我从未后悔过,是我未遵守诺言,你要杀我,我毫无怨言,是我无能,无法保护你和你的家人。”
  • 绣出完美人生

    绣出完美人生

    梅洪良,虽然你安排策划了我的重生,但我的人生,永远不会像你谋划得那般“完美”。所谓完美人生,不过是个笑话罢了!余然做了一个很长很长的梦,梦里她重生了,遇到了很多事,伴随而来还有重重的阴谋与背叛……在梦中,她好像是一个旁观者,可有可无,抑或是被牵制的木偶,手脚都被名为亲情的线牢牢地绑住,尔后在某人的指挥下,被动地挥舞着她的四肢,最后她忍不下去了,亲手割断了名为亲情的木偶线,离开了那个曾经充满温暖的家……