“Courageous, untroubled, mocking, and violent — that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”

Reading Slowly

‘It is not for nothing that I have been a philologist, perhaps I am a philologist still, that is to say, a teacher of slow reading: – in the end I also write slowly. Nowadays it is not only my habit, it is also to my taste – a malicious taste perhaps? – no longer to write anything which does not reduce to despair every son of man who is 'in a hurry'. [...] My patient friends, this book desires for itself only perfect readers and philologists: learn to read me well! (Nietzsche: 1997 [1887], p.5)’

Nietzsche, Friedrich (1997 [1887]) Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press