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Once again started to read Nietzsche's 'Also sprach Zarathustra' (the third or fourth try, I believe), and hopefully, with the pressure of 50bookchallenge I'll even finish it this time. [Strange book. Curiously poetic; some things I find rather to the point, others... well, I need to finish it first.]

Now I have only little faith in the Andromeda writers or producers ever having picked up one of Nietzsche's works and read it cover to cover. KHC, who appears to have done so, finds Nietzsche too incoherently rambling. KS? no idea. So perhaps it's more a testimony of Nietzsche's perception of things than the result of any efforts on the part of the Andromeda crew that the chapter 'Vom Freunde' ('The Friend') describes the Dylan/Tyr relationship so precisely. The friendship and enmity, respect and resentment so close together, the distance and unquestioning trust. The betrayal, even. It's tempting to believe that at least this chapter went into the conception of the characters, the similarities are almost too much to be entirely coincidental.

( quotes: german/english )

And again I wish I were a better writer, or indeed any kind of writer. This really ought to be further explored in a story...