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the game
Turin's horse
Nietzche’s mind
empathy enlarged
beasts powerful
january morning
eighteen eightynine
the genesis
both flogged
the prognosis
paralytic dementia
circa today
place now
same thing
we know
the mind
breaks first
Published 16th Apr 2022
Author's Note
Friedrich Nietzsche went mad after allegedly seeing a horse being whipped in the Italian city of Turin in 1889
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19th Apr 2022 7:34pm
Instant reading list add for me. It’s so rare to see a historical moment rendered psychologically, so as to invite empathy.
20th Apr 2022 2:50am
thank you CR for the succinct summation !
glad you felt as much as i did. much respect.
glad you felt as much as i did. much respect.
