The Gay Science is
my favorite book of his.
It solves the problem
of my life. Two faiths.
Weak Christianity with
its stress on pity
(my childhood faith) and
Epicurianism,
study of my old
age in the pages
of Horace, mocking will-to-
power: these are the
same. So my life flows.
On summer nights like this I
moonwatch and listen
to garage bands chase
Nietzsche’s dream of total sound.
Everything makes sense.
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Tom D'Evelyn is a private editor and writing tutor in Cranston RI and, thanks to the web, across the US and in the UK. He can be reached at tom.develyn@comcast.net. D'Evelyn has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. Before retiring he held positions at The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard University Press, Boston University and Brown University. He ran a literary agency for ten years, publishing books by Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn, among others. Before moving to Portland OR he was managing editor at Single Island Press, Portsmouth NH. He blogs at http://tdevelyn.com and other sites.
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