Leap II

A dangerous transition, a dangerous journey, a dangerous looking back, hesitation and stopping – this is what man is according to Nietzsche. That man should transcend himself, leave himself behind, and in an impossible feat – make a dangerous leap beyond himself. The poem about Zarathustra, ‘the wicked faceless and bodiless goblin, the leader of the column, with a wreath of roses of laughter on his unprincipled head, with his ‘Be strong’ and his legs of a dancer, is not a realization but pure rhetoric, crazy pun, troubled voice and questionable prophecy, a shadow of the powerless grandezza, often touching and almost always painful, an apparition that staggers on the edge of ridicule…” (Mann).