Chapter LXXIX. The Drunken Song.

It were the height of presumption to attempt to fix any particular

interpretation of my own to the words of this song. With what has gone

before, the reader, while reading it as poetry, should be able to seek

and find his own meaning in it. The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence

appears for the last time here, in an art-form. Nietzsche lays stress

upon the fact that all happiness, all delight, longs for repetitions,

and just as a child cries “Again! Again!” to the adult who happens to

be amusing him; so the man who sees a meaning, and a joyful meaning, in

existence must also cry “Again!” and yet “Again!” to all his life.

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