One is man, and another is the fire-dog" "Wisdom wearies". Nietzsche is dauntingly impenetrable: "I walk among men as among fragments of the future" "The earth has a skin and this skin has diseases. Do not assume that because, unlike his previous books, this is written in narrative form it will be easier to understand. Instead they get a discourse on the ethical consequences of the death of God from the founder of the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. "Of all that is written I love only what a person has written with his blood," Zarathustra tells a crowd of bemused citizens who have gathered to see a rope dancer perform.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche, read by Alex Jennings (5½hrs abridged, Naxos, £16.99 CD)
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