Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Part I.
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The Third Zarathustra
In the autumn of 1883, my brother left the Yangadine for Germany and stayed there a few weeks. In the following winter he landed in Nice, where the climate so happily promoted his creative powers that he wrote the third part of Zarathustra. The composition of the fourth part alone was broken by occasional interruptions. My most creative moments were always accompanied by unusual muscular activity. I might often have been seen dancing in those days. Without a suggestion of fatigue I could then walk for seven or eight hours on and among the hills. I slept well, and laughed well. I was perfectly robust and patient. That decisive chapter entitled Old and New Tables was composed in the very difficult
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