Nietzsche at Night - A Sunless Scouring of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' - Part 1

My friends,

In this group's recent reading of The Gay Science, our dearest Dionysian Dynamite spoke to the New Year (see 276. For the new year, p. 223), sharing his wishes for himself and paving a path forward composed of a freshly wrangled love of fate and a newfangled proclivity for yes-saying.
To all those who have hitherto attended N@N, it is abundantly clear that there is no necessity as urgent upon the calendar's renewal as continuing to affirm our fate (i.e., our destiny of meeting at Talea once a month to babble and battle over books) and yes-saying to lengthy readings (apologies, I'm affirming my instincts in continuing to make y'all approach texts this way).

So! For Nietzsche @ Night 5, we will be coming down from the mountain and seeing what all the hubbub is about with Nietzsche's only fiction-adjacent work, the 1883, 1884, 1885 text Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None.

For this reading, we will be focusing on Part One and Part Two of the text. So, based on the Penguin Classics edition that I'll be using, it'll be around 130ish pages.

That said, here is the Penguin Classics R.J. Hollingdale translation on Amazon. I'll be reading this alongside the Walter Kaufmann translation available in The Portable Nietzsche, available on Amazon here and as a free PDF here.
I unfortunately couldn't find a PDF for Hollingdale's translation so pick whatever works best for you - sometimes having different translations works to elucidate things for a group, somethings its makes them all the more cloudy.

We will be meeting at TALEA Beer Co.'s Taproom in Williamsburg (87 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211 - next to McCarren Park). I'll let everyone know where to find us on the day of the discussion.

As always, this group is open to newcomers to Nietzsche, novices of philosophy, ragamuffins, ne'er-do-wells, urchins of all sorts, etc. All insights are encouraged, just be somewhat sensible and all the way cool. Ain't no fun to be found in nodding your head along with a thinker for a hundred pages - strive to disagree with decency

Looking forward to ringing in the new year with a hammer alongside you all,

Hamp