Nietzsche's History Of an Error

             I.      The true world- He lives in it, he is it. Sensible. Simple. Persuasive.

 

          II.      Promised for the sage, the pious, the sinner who repents. It becomes female- It becomes Christian.

 

       III.      Unpromisable. The very thought of it a consolation. At bottom, the old sun. Seen through the mist, elusive and pale.

 

       IV.      Unattained and unknown. Gray morning. The first yawn of reason- The cockcrow of positivism.

 

          V.      No longer good for anything- Useless and refuted. Bright day; breakfast- Plato’s embarrassed blush and the return of bon sens.

 

       VI.      The true world, abolished. Fell twisted with apparent. End of the longest error. Noon’s briefest shadow, a moment.

-Friedrich Nietzsche