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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Thus Spoke Zarathustra about Friedrich, Wilhelm, October with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States.
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conversations.value: Friedrich Wilhelm the author (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. the author's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism.
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conversations.value: Provide the first five paragraphs for this book.. End with the sentence ' His failure with Lou, however, threw him for a time completely off balance – how far off balance can be gauged, for example, from this letter to Franz Overbeck, posted on Christmas Day 1882:'.
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conversations.value: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  This makes a brave sound, and the feeling that it expresses – that there are new worlds to be opened up – came to dominate more and more from the summer of 1881 onwards. 'Ideas have arisen on my horizon the like of which I have never seen before...', Nietzsche wrote to Peter Gast on 14 August 1881. 'I shall certainly have to live a few years more!...The intensity of my feelings makes me shudder and laugh – a couple of times I couldn't leave my room for the ludicrous reason that my eyes were inflamed.... Each time I had been weeping too much on my walks the day before, not sentimental tears but tears of rejoicing; and as I wept I sang and talked nonsense, filled with a new vision...'
  This is not an altogether new note, but the intensity is new and the 'ideas' alluded to are also new and new in this sense that they are direct attempts to go beyond the nihilist conclusions of the past five years without being obliged to retract any of them.
  This challenge to everything nihilist in his nature is followed a little later by a call to action, battle and positive commitment phrased in one of his most famous coinages – perhaps actually the most famous phrase in all his works:
  Undoubtedly Nietzsche at this point identified himself with another 'teacher' who came down out of solitude around his fortieth year.
  The second point is that, after he was abandoned during the following October by Lou Salomé and had to realize that his hope of marrying her was definitely not going to be fulfilled, he fell into an abyss of despair. I am not underrating the emotional effect which such a disappointment might normally be expected to produce, but its effect on Nietzsche was certainly very violent indeed, especially considering that his disposition was usually a cheerful one. It should be recalled that he had been recurrently ill since 1871 – almost certainly a consequence of a syphilitic infection contracted when a student – and the inability of these attacks to depress him or do more than delay his work is a witness to the resilience of his temperament. His failure with Lou, however, threw him for a time completely off balance – how far off balance can be gauged, for example, from this letter to Franz Overbeck, posted on Christmas Day 1882:
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conversations.value: Provide five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: And do you tell me, friends, that there is no dispute over taste and tasting? But all life is dispute over taste and tasting!
  Taste: that is at the same time weight and scales and weigher; and woe to all living creatures that want to live without dispute over weight and scales and weigher!
  If he grew weary of his sublimity, this sublime man, only then would his beauty rise up – and only then will I taste him and find him tasty.
  He has sat all too long in the shadows, the cheeks of the penitent of the spirit have grown pale; he has almost starved on his expectations.
  There is still contempt in his eye, and disgust lurks around his mouth. He rests now, to be sure, but he has never yet lain down in the sunlight.
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conversations.value: Provide the last five paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Zarathustra had said this to his heart when the sun rose: then he looked inquiringly aloft, for he heard above him the sharp cry of his eagle'.
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conversations.value: Zarathustra had said this to his heart when the sun rose: then he looked inquiringly aloft, for he heard above him the sharp cry of his eagle. 'Very well!' he cried up, 'so do I like it, so do I deserve it. My animals are awake, for I am awake.
  Thus spoke Zarathustra; then, however, he suddenly heard that he was surrounded by countless birds, swarming and fluttering – the whirring of so many wings and the throng about his head, however, were so great that he shut his eyes. And truly, it was as if a cloud had fallen upon him, a cloud of arrows discharged over a new enemy. And behold, in this case it was a cloud of love, and over a new friend.
  But Zarathustra himself, bewildered and spell-bound, raised himself from his seat, gazed about him, stood there amazed, questioned his heart, recollected, and saw he was alone. 'What was it I heard?' he slowly said at last, 'what has just happened to me?'
  And once more Zarathustra became absorbed in himself and sat himself again on the great stone and meditated. Suddenly, he leaped up -
  Thus spoke Zarathustra and left his cave, glowing and strong, like a morning sun emerging from behind dark mountains.