Finished reading: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common, Oscar Levy 📚
This was a hard read that took me months to work through. I’m going to let it simmer for a while, and then read the analysis in the appendix that weaves in context from Nietzche’s various life experiences. It was interesting to work through criticisms of my beliefs while also finding other parts of this work that I agreed with. Many of the ideas were tough enough to understand through the parables they were encapsulated in, but reading it in old-timey English was the cherry on top that made this an excruciatingly slow read for me. I found myself rereading sections multiple times very often.
I’m very glad to be done with it, but also glad that I challenged myself with this book. It might be a while before I take on something this difficult again though. I think I need to build up my stamina for reads like this, much like I need to build of my cardiopulmonary fitness for running races!