Not only is his over-all tendency like mine—making knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world order, the unegoistic, and evil

from Nietzsche’s postcard to Overbeck, written July 30, 1881 in Sils Maria, from The Portable Nietzsche.

This book makes me question everything I do. From this blog to the files and folders and notebooks in my filing cabinet and how all of this stuff could be assembled into a portable edition that encapsulates my entire career. That’s quite a thing to contemplate considering my sizable fucking forehead and how it is arepresentation of my ego, I shudder at having these thoughts. What kind of person thinks this way? That anyone does anything worth being assembled into something like a portable edition?

Though it is interesting to think. What would be in something like this if someone compiled all the random postcards, letters, notes, drafts of books, blog posts, and other work into an edition that encapsulates your life’s work? What would be in such a text?

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