Author: Joseph LittleshoesJoseph Littleshoes Date: Nov 5, 2006 13:01
THUS ATE ZARATHUSTRA
by WOODY ALLEN
There’s nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker
to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart
about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a
microscope. On a recent trip to Heidelberg to procure some rare
nineteenth-century duelling scars, I happened upon just such a treasure.
Who would have thought that “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Diet Book” existed?
While its authenticity might appear to be a soupçon dicey to the
niggling, most who have studied the work agree that no other Western
thinker has come so close to reconciling Plato with Pritikin. Selections
follow.
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