Nietzsche at Night - A Noontide Negation of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' - Part 2

My friends,

Here we stand over the abyss at the midpoint of this text, between our entrance as animal and our exodus as superman along rainbow and stairway. Will you continue along, brushing elbows with those equally embodying both exemplary enemy and finest friend, toward being a bridge to those fertile ruins left solely as a bestowing upon distant creators for their own strangling and melding into new values?
Or will you fail to RSVP (or worse, RSVP falsely!) languishing in your Last Manosphere, the spine of your book uncracked, your "discovered happiness" found in long-form interviews with the Stranger Things cast and ordering meal-prep containers that will never be used! You pseudo-Solitary, devouring delivery dumplings, unable even to digest yourself! You afterworksman, questioning a going-out on a Thursday to abide by the requisites of the Rabble!

In summary - it's Nietzsche @ Night 6 and we will be coming down from the mountain (again) and seeing what all the hubbub is about (again) 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 Three and Part Four of the text. So, based on the Penguin Classics edition that I'll be using, it'll be around 160ish pages (Sorry, we're bullish - there is a daytime reading of the text going on currently with the text split up more reasonably. You can find it here: link link link. )

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.

Here is a speedily put together glossary of key terms & figures in the first two parts: link link link. I'll be provided an updated version prior to our meeting. It is anything but exhaustive, but it might act as a helpful reference as we work through the text.

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 yapping.

Hamp