_ SECOND PART
       XXXVI. THE LAND OF CULTURE
       Too far did I fly into the future: a horror seized upon me.
       And when I looked around me, lo! there time was my sole contemporary.
       Then did I fly backwards, homewards--and always faster. Thus did I come unto you, ye present-day men, and into the land of culture.
       For the first time brought I an eye to see you, and good desire: verily, with longing in my heart did I come.
       But how did it turn out with me? Although so alarmed--I had yet to laugh! Never did mine eye see anything so motley-coloured!
       I laughed and laughed, while my foot still trembled, and my heart as well. "Here forsooth, is the home of all the paintpots,"--said I.
       With fifty patches painted on faces and limbs--so sat ye there to mine astonishment, ye present-day men!
       And with fifty mirrors around you, which flattered your play of colours, and repeated it!
       Verily, ye could wear no better masks, ye present-day men, than your own faces! Who could--RECOGNISE you!
       Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new characters--thus have ye concealed yourselves well from all decipherers!
       And though one be a trier of the reins, who still believeth that ye have reins! Out of colours ye seem to be baked, and out of glued scraps.
       All times and peoples gaze divers-coloured out of your veils; all customs and beliefs speak divers-coloured out of your gestures.
       He who would strip you of veils and wrappers, and paints and gestures, would just have enough left to scare the crows.
       Verily, I myself am the scared crow that once saw you naked, and without paint; and I flew away when the skeleton ogled at me.
       Rather would I be a day-labourer in the nether-world, and among the shades of the by-gone!--Fatter and fuller than ye, are forsooth the nether-worldlings!
       This, yea this, is bitterness to my bowels, that I can neither endure you naked nor clothed, ye present-day men!
       All that is unhomelike in the future, and whatever maketh strayed birds shiver, is verily more homelike and familiar than your "reality."
       For thus speak ye: "Real are we wholly, and without faith and superstition": thus do ye plume yourselves--alas! even without plumes!
       Indeed, how would ye be ABLE to believe, ye divers-coloured ones!--ye who are pictures of all that hath ever been believed!
       Perambulating refutations are ye, of belief itself, and a dislocation of all thought. UNTRUSTWORTHY ONES: thus do I call you, ye real ones!
       All periods prate against one another in your spirits; and the dreams and pratings of all periods were even realer than your awakeness!
       Unfruitful are ye: THEREFORE do ye lack belief. But he who had to create, had always his presaging dreams and astral premonitions--and believed in believing!--
       Half-open doors are ye, at which grave-diggers wait. And this is YOUR reality: "Everything deserveth to perish."
       Alas, how ye stand there before me, ye unfruitful ones; how lean your ribs! And many of you surely have had knowledge thereof.
       Many a one hath said: "There hath surely a God filched something from me secretly whilst I slept? Verily, enough to make a girl for himself therefrom!
       "Amazing is the poverty of my ribs!" thus hath spoken many a present-day man.
       Yea, ye are laughable unto me, ye present-day men! And especially when ye marvel at yourselves!
       And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling, and had to swallow all that is repugnant in your platters!
       As it is, however, I will make lighter of you, since I have to carry what is heavy; and what matter if beetles and May-bugs also alight on my load!
       Verily, it shall not on that account become heavier to me! And not from you, ye present-day men, shall my great weariness arise.--
       Ah, whither shall I now ascend with my longing! From all mountains do I look out for fatherlands and motherlands.
       But a home have I found nowhere: unsettled am I in all cities, and decamping at all gates.
       Alien to me, and a mockery, are the present-day men, to whom of late my heart impelled me; and exiled am I from fatherlands and motherlands.
       Thus do I love only my CHILDREN'S LAND, the undiscovered in the remotest sea: for it do I bid my sails search and search.
       Unto my children will I make amends for being the child of my fathers: and unto all the future--for THIS present-day!--
       Thus spake Zarathustra. _

Introduction By Mrs Forster-Nietzsche
First Part
   First Part - Zarathustra's Prologue
   First Part - 1. The Three Metamorphoses
   First Part - 2. The Academic Chairs Of Virtue
   First Part - 3. Backworldsmen
   First Part - 4. The Despisers Of The Body
   First Part - 5. Joys And Passions
   First Part - 6. The Pale Criminal
   First Part - 7. Reading And Writing
   First Part - 8. The Tree On The Hill
   First Part - 9. The Preachers Of Death
   First Part - 10. War And Warriors
   First Part - 11. The New Idol
   First Part - 12. The Flies In The Market-Place
   First Part - 13. Chastity
   First Part - 14. The Friend
   First Part - 15. The Thousand And One Goals
   First Part - 16. Neighbour-Love
   First Part - 17. The Way Of The Creating One
   First Part - 18. Old And Young Women
   First Part - 19. The Bite Of The Adder
   First Part - 20. Child And Marriage
   First Part - 21. Voluntary Death
   First Part - 22. The Bestowing Virtue
Second Part
   Second Part - 23. The Child With The Mirror
   Second Part - 24. In The Happy Isles
   Second Part - 25. The Pitiful
   Second Part - 26. The Priests
   Second Part - 27. The Virtuous
   Second Part - 28. The Rabble
   Second Part - 29. The Tarantulas
   Second Part - 30. The Famous Wise Ones
   Second Part - 31. The Night-Song
   Second Part - 32. The Dance-Song
   Second Part - 33. The Grave-Song
   Second Part - 34. Self-Surpassing
   Second Part - 35. The Sublime Ones
   Second Part - 36. The Land Of Culture
   Second Part - 37. Immaculate Perception
   Second Part - 38. Scholars
   Second Part - 39. Poets
   Second Part - 40. Great Events
   Second Part - 41. The Soothsayer
   Second Part - 42. Redemption
   Second Part - 43. Manly Prudence
   Second Part - 44. The Stillest Hour
Third Part
   Third Part - 45. The Wanderer
   Third Part - 46. The Vision And The Enigma
   Third Part - 47. Involuntary Bliss
   Third Part - 48. Before Sunrise
   Third Part - 49. The Bedwarfing Virtue
   Third Part - 50. On The Olive-Mount
   Third Part - 51. On Passing-By
   Third Part - 52. The Apostates
   Third Part - 53. The Return Home
   Third Part - 54. The Three Evil Things
   Third Part - 55. The Spirit Of Gravity
   Third Part - 56. Old And New Tables
   Third Part - 57. The Convalescent
   Third Part - 58. The Great Longing
   Third Part - 59. The Second Dance-Song
   Third Part - 60. The Seven Seals
Fourth Part
   Fourth Part - 61. The Honey Sacrifice
   Fourth Part - 62. The Cry Of Distress
   Fourth Part - 63. Talk With The Kings
   Fourth Part - 64. The Leech
   Fourth Part - 65. The Magician
   Fourth Part - 66. Out Of Service
   Fourth Part - 67. The Ugliest Man
   Fourth Part - 68. The Voluntary Beggar
   Fourth Part - 69. The Shadow
   Fourth Part - 70. Noontide
   Fourth Part - 71. The Greeting
   Fourth Part - 72. The Supper
   Fourth Part - 73. The Higher Man
   Fourth Part - 74. The Song Of Melancholy
   Fourth Part - 75. Science
   Fourth Part - 76. Among Daughters Of The Desert
   Fourth Part - 77. The Awakening
   Fourth Part - 78. The Ass-Festival
   Fourth Part - 79. The Drunken Song
   Fourth Part - 80. The Sign
Appendix
   Appendix - Notes On "Thus Spake Zarathustra" By Anthony M. Ludovici
   Appendix - Part 1. The Prologue
   Appendix - Part 2
   Appendix - Part 3
   Appendix - Part 4