in plague years,
hurrying to die
a less isolating
way, and staying
together
The certain prospect
of death could sweet-
en every life with a
precious and fragrant
drop of levity - and
now you strange apoth-
ecary souls have turn-
ed it into an ill-tas-
ting drop of poison
that makes the whole
of life repulsive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Basic Writings of Nietzsche
The Wanderer and his
Shadow, 1880
Walter Kaufmann, editor
and translator
op. cit.
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