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Often appears with: spiritual awakening and danger · solitude · psychology of aspiration and fear · perception and the senses · fate, destiny, and necessity · envy, jealousy, and resentment · envious discipleship · education and the training of the young
Usually: narrative (1) · rivalry (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)
Zarathustra narrates how Zarathustra encounters a youth avoiding him near a tree on the hills of “The Pied Cow,” using the image of roots struggling downward to explain the youth’s envy and fear of solitude.
I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot. Now am I light, now do I fly; now do I see myself under myself. Now there danceth a God in me.— Thus spake Zarathustra. VIII. THE TREE ON THE HILL. Zarathustra’s eye had perceived that a certain youth avoided him. And as he walked alone one evening over the hills surrounding the to…