Secondpart_8

8)The Night Song
     -Z likens himself to light/a sun within a dark void
     -those in darkness crave and clamor to the light
          >when you are dark, you want that which you are not: light
           (correlation and support for the religious idea of creating a �good� based in that which is                difficult for man)
     -but when you yourself are light, then the light of another does not attract you
     -something about being careful not to be too generous and give too much
         >helping while withdrawing help at the same time
     -�the danger of those who always give is that they lose their sense of shame�
         >losing your sense of shame makes �your hands callous from always meting out�
              *giving too much and too often can lead you to become jaded and unfeeling to the act of                giving
     -Z doesn�t criticize giving
         >just criticizes giving too much
9)The Dancing Song
     -talking about Cupid and love
     -comparing women to life
         >both are changeable and wild
         >both, men call unfathomable just because men don�t understand it
     -people thirst after wisdom, but are never satisfied
         >also is like life and women because it is changeable
     -So, what is the dancing song?
10)The Tomb Song
     -talking about youth and innocence
     -taking away and �killing� one�s innocence is worse than physically murdering a person
     -innocence allows one to think well of all people and things
     -in taking away innocence, you take away a very pure joy of many things
          >i.e. dancing and giving
     -all these things of youth were destroyed and died
          >buried in a tomb
     -reborn and resurrected out of these tombs (overcoming these wounds) rises the
      �invulnerable� will
          >the will remains unchanged through the years
    -will allows one to break free of the psychological chains that bind us with the wounds and
      trauma resulting from out shattered innocence and youth
    -you need the youth and innocence to die in order for the strong will to be born out of these           wounds that the death of youth created
11)Self Overcoming
    -speaking of the will to power
    -�a will to the thinkability of all things�
    -you want to create the world and then bend that world to what you desire
    -3 points:
        1)whatever lives, obeys
        2)he who cannot obey, himself, is commanded
        3)commanding is harder than obeying
              >because he must carry the burden of all who obey
              >because this burden may easily crush him
    -life is that which must always overcome itself
12)Those Who are Sublime
    -sublime: royalty, standing tall, powerful, majestic, proud, larger than life
    -one who is sublime is ugly
         >ascetic of the spirit
         >caught up in his appearance and accomplishments
         >unable to relax and enjoy life
    -tenseness is not favorable
         >try to be relaxed
    -when the sublime relinquish their sublimity, that is when they discover their beauty
    -in order to transform into the overman, the sublime must conquer, the difficulty of the act of        kindness
         >kindness is difficult for those capable of all evil
         >overcome that which is difficult
          (cross-reference with criticism of religion that makes a virtue out of all things that are                   difficult; a concession to religion or just separate?)
13)The Land of Education
     -people today are hollow
          >they flesh themselves out with the past
     -people mask themselves with all the customs and faiths of the peoples of the pass
     -with this broad and varied collection of traits enshrouding people, they seek to:
          >flatter themselves with their wild appearance
          >hide themselves from their true personality being discovered
    -but without all these rainments, people are actually very frail and hollow
    -people are too guided by their past