0745653014 by Stephen Sale & Laura Salisbury

Author:Stephen Sale & Laura Salisbury [Sale, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Know I now all thy need?

All things, all things, all now know I.

All to me is revealed.

Wings of thy ravens wave around me;

with tidings long desired,

I send now thy messengers home.

Rest thou, rest thou, o god!

(Wagner, Götterdämmerung 83)

The German original makes it much clearer that noise and message fall as completely together as they do in Claude Shannon’s mathematical theory of information. By waving their wings, Wotan’s dark ravens find their way home to the sphere of eternal return. Death becomes sleep, and sleep rebirth. One of the most brilliant questions invented by Nietzsche tells us precisely this.

What if some day or night a demon were to steal into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it you will have to live once again and innumerable times again; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unspeakably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself […].’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine.’ (194)

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