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77 - Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche · Logic Library

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  Part four, Chapter seventy seven, the Awakening Section one. After the song
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  of the Wanderer and Shadow, the cave became all at once full of noise
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  and laughter. And since the assembled guests all spake simultaneously, and even the
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  Ass, encouraged thereby no longer remained silent, a little aversion and scorn for
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  his visitors came over Zarathustra, although he rejoiced at their gladness, for it
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  seemed to him a sign of convalescence. So he slipped out into the open
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  air and spoke to his animals. Whither hath their distress now gone? Said
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  he? And already did he himself feel relieved of his petty disgust with me.
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  It seemeth that they have unlearned their cries of distress, though alas not
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  yet their crying. And Zarathustra stopped his ears, for just then did the
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  ye are of the ass mix strangely with the noisy jubilation of those higher men.
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  They are merry, he began again, And who knoweth, perhaps at
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  their host's expense. And if they have learned of me to laugh, still,
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  it is not my laughter they have learned. But what matter about that?
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  They are old people. They recover in their own way. They laugh
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  in their own way. Mine ears have already endured worse, and have not
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  become peevish. This day is a victory. He already yieldeth, he fleeth
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  the spirit of gravity, mine old arch enemy. How well this day is
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  about to end, which began so badly and gloomily, And it is about
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  to end. Already cometh the evening over the sea. Rideth it hither the
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  good rider, How it bobbeth the blessed one, the home returning one,
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  and its purple saddles the sky gazeth brightly thereon the world lieth deep. Oh,
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  all you strange ones who have come to me, It is already worth
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  while to have lived with me. Thus spake Zarathustra. And again came the
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  cries and laughter of the higher men out of the cave. Then began he
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  anew. They bite at it. My bait taketh. There departeth also from
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  them their enemy, the spirit of gravity. Now do they learn to laugh
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  at themselves? Do I hear rightly? My virile food taketh effect my strong
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  and savory sayings. And verily I did not nourish them with flatulant vegetables.
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  But with worrier food, with conqueror food. New desires did I awaken.
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  New hopes are in their arms and legs. Their hearts expand, they find
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  new words. Soon will their spirits breathe wantonness. Such food may sure enough
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  not be proper for children, nor even for longing girls old and young.
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  One persuadeth their bowels. Otherwise I am not their physician teacher. The disgust
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  departeth from these higher men. Well, that is my victory and my domain.
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  They become assured. All stupid shame fleeth away. They empty themselves,
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  They empty their hearts. Good times return unto them. They keep holiday and
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  ruminate. They become thankful. That do I take us the best sign?
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  They become thankful. Not long will it be ere. They devise festivals and
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  put up memorials to their old joys. They are convalescents. Thus spoke Zarathustra
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  joyfully to his heart and gazed outward. His animals, however, pressed up
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  to him and honored his happiness and his silence. Section two. All on
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  a sudden, however, Zarathustra's air was frightened, for the cave which had
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  hitherto been full of noise and laughter, became all at once still as death.
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  His nose, however, smelt a sweet scented vapor and incense odor,
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  as if from burning pine cones. What happeneth? What are they about?
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  He asked himself, and stole up to the entrance, that he might be
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  able unobserved, to see his guests. But wonder upon wonder what was he
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  then obliged to behold with his own eyes. They have, all of them
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  become pious again, they pray, they are mad, said he, and
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  was astonished beyond measure, and forsooth all these high men, the two kings,
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  the Pope out of service, the evil magician, the voluntary beggar,
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  the wanderer in shadow, the old soothsayer, the spiritually conscientious one, and
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  the ugliest man. They all lay on their knees like children and credulous old
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  women, and worshiped the ass. And just then began the ugliest man to
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  gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression,
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  when however, he had actually found words. Behold, it was a pious,
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  strange litany in praise of the adored and sensed ass and their litany sounded.
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  Thus, Amen and glory and honor and wisdom, and thanks and praise
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  and strength be to our God, from everlasting to everlasting. The ass,
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  however, hair braid ye are he carrieth our burdens. He hath taken upon
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  him the form of a servant. He is patient of heart and never saith
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  nay. And he who loveth his God chastiseth him. The ass, however,
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  hair braid ye are He speaketh not, except that he ever saith yea
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  to the world which he created. Thus doth he extol his world? It
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  is his artfulness that speaketh not. Thus is he rarely found wrong. The
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  ass, however, hair braid ye are uncomely goeth he through the world.
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  Gray is the favorite color in which he wrapeth his virtue. Hath spirit,
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  then doth he conceal it? Everyone, however, believeth in his long ears.
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  The ass, however, hair breith ye are what hidden wisdom it is
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  to wear long ears and only to say yea and never nay. Hath he
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  not created the world in his own image, namely as stupid as possible.
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  The ass, however, hair braid ye are thou goest straight and crooked ways
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  it concerneth the little, what seemeth straight or crooked unto us men. Beyond
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  good and evil is thy domain. It is thine innocence not to know what
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  innocence is the ass. However, hair braid ye are lo how thou spurnest
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  none from thee, neither beggars nor kings. Thou sufferest little children to come
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  unto thee. And when the bad boys decoy thee, then sayest thou simply
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  ye are the ass. However he braid ye are thou lovest she asses and
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  fresh figs. Thou art no food despiser a. This articuleth thy heart.
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  When thou chancest to be hungry. There is the wisdom of a God therein
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  the ass. However, here braid ye are. End of Part four,
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  Chapter seventy seven.