Z commences this monologue with the analogy of man as a rope across the abyss between animal [Man as driven by instict] and the superman [man as driven by the will to actualise his potential]. Man is a bridge he asserts an overgoing [life lived in progression toward the superman] and a downgoing [suffering as a result of this progression]. Z asserts that life lived in progression toward the superman is one of suffering. Z professes admiration for specific individuals that include:
- Individuals suffering that live in progression toward the superman
- Those that have perhaps set their sights on super-earthly hopes but have awakened to the possibility of the superman
- Those who have not given themselves to super-earthly hope but instead commit themselves to this life
- live to learn and looks in order that they might become the superman
- Endevours to build a context for the superman in their own life
- Aspires to suffering which indicates the desire to become
- Does not give creedence to the concept of soul but grasps the heart in the virtue of suffering to become
- Makes this aspiration to become or transcend his goal and as such either proceeds or does not.
- Does not seek praise or give praise for the endevour of becoming
- Feels guilty where fortune spares him suffering
- Seeks out suffering to become; justifying future suffering in light of past and as a result is willing to suffer in the present
- Corrects his diety because he loves his diety in spite of potential wrath.
- Is deeply wounded and prone to succcumb to the smallest thing and yet willingly seeks transcendence.
- Is wearied and forgets who he is as all things cause him suffering
- Who has attained the superman or atleast freedom in motivation; whereby his reason the very life that keeps him going and the prime cause of suffering
- For all who feel the weight as heralds of the cost of the superman.
Z concludes this dialogue with the assertion that he is such a herald himself. That the superman is the lightning that follows the raindrops.
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