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Quotation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The shepherd however bit as my cry had admonished him; he bit with a strong bite! Far away did he spit the head of the serpent—: and sprang up”
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, Discourse XLVI: The Vision and the Enigma, trans. Thomas Common (1892)
The climax of the riddle Zarathustra tells the sailors: overcoming nausea at recurrence is figured as biting off the head of a serpent lodged in the throat.
Citation: "The shepherd however bit as my cry had admonished him; he bit with a strong bite! Far away did he spit the head of the serpent—: and sprang up" — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, Discourse XLVI: The Vision and the Enigma, trans. Thomas Common (1892). (id thus-spoke-zarathustra-q12)
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