#zarathustra

RENZO NOVATORE — The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore, transl. by Wolfi Landstreicher, (2012)

Fra. Zarathustra (i.e. Nelson White) - An Introduction to MAGICK - Labrys Press - 1972 (cover by Frater Aleyin aka Carroll Runyon)

This last example really gives the game away. For this kind of absurdity is untrue. Camus' absurdity is not reality seen naked; it is reality deliberately distorted or drained of meaning. To point to a reality drained of meaning, and then to claim that this example proves reality itself is meaningless, is a strange kind of logic. Camus' vision of the world is the vision of a young romantic, heavily tinged with self-pity and a sense of personal inadequacy. Nietzsche began his career in much the same way, by swallowing Schopenhauer in one monstrous gulp, and then groaning with indigestion for two or three years. But Nietzsche outgrew his juvenile pessimism, and created Zarathustra. Camus found the process of transition slower and more painful, because he insisted on clinging to the fallacy that "absurdity" (or "nausea") is a vision of the fundamental truth—life seen without illusions. His failure to see through the fallacy is typical of the lack of logic that characterizes French philosophy in general.” - Colin Wilson, ‘“Lucky” Camus’ (August 1979)

Terry Rowlett: Zarathustra

Song: Also sprach Zarathustra Artist: Richard Strauss Conducted by: Gustavo Dudamel Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 28 April 2012

Pedro Friedeberg — The Silence of Zarathustra (ink and acrylic on museum board, 2014)