Nietzsche @ Night - Balking Brightness via "The Birth of Tragedy"

My friends,

If you had told me seven Nietzsche at Night's ago that we would one day be at our seventh Nietzsche at Night, I would've said this makes complete sense, that these events are a smash hit, that all attendees await them in anticipation with gnawed fingernails, anxiously crossing off calendar boxes or carving tallies into the cell-walls of their confines. That it has at last come, this seventh iteration of an infinity of glorious iterations, unsurprising as it may be, still warrants celebration. So, in jubilation and with a love of the fate that destined us to arrive here, we rewind the Nietzschean trajectory to the very beginning, to the birth of both tragedy and our great friend Friedrich himself.

In short, for Nietzsche @ Night 7, we will be reading Nietzsche's first philosophical text, 1872's The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music.

For this reading, we will be reading, digesting, and yapping about the text in its entirety. So, if you're reading the Shaun Whiteside translation from Penguin Classics like I intend to, this will be around 118 pages. If this feels insurmountable, ask yourself what the Übermensch would do.

That said, there are a number of free PDFs available online with a variety of translations online:
Here is Wm. A. Haussmann's translation via the Internet Archive. I've only linked the PDF but other formats are available here. Here is another version of the same translation via Project Gutenberg.
Here is another free copy translated by Ian Johnston via Holybooks.com.

I will be providing a glossary of terms and concepts prior to the meeting so I will update attendees with this file prior to the meeting to be used as a reference.

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 starting at the beginning with all of you N@N'ers,

Hamp