Expect blogging to be intermittent until the end of the school year. Right now I'm trying to summon the will to power my way through Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy for a paper due early next week. I'm enjoying it, even though it is nowhere near as lively as his later work. Still, one has to enjoy finding gems such as this:
“…the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann, in The Birth of Tragedy, section 9
Good times, y'all.
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