《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第二部》第38节
At last he became calmer and his panting subsided; as soon, however, as he was quiet, I said laughingly: “Thou art angry, fire-dog: so I am in the right about thee! And that I may also maintain the right, hear the story of another fire-dog; he speaketh actually out of the heart of the earth. Gold doth his breath exhale, and golden rain: so doth his heart desire. What are ashes and smoke and hot dregs to him! Laughter flitteth from him like a variegated cloud; adverse is he to thy gargling and spewing and grips in the bowels! The gold, however, and the laughter—these doth he take out of the heart of the earth: for, that thou mayst know it,—THE HEART OF THE EARTH IS OF GOLD.” When the fire-dog heard this, he could no longer endure to listen to me. Abashed did he draw in his tail, said “bow-wow!” in a cowed voice, and crept down into his cave.— Thus told Zarathustra. His disciples, however, hardly listened to him: so great was their eagerness to tell him about the sailors, the rabbits, and the flying man. “What am I to think of it!” said Zarathustra. “Am I indeed a ghost? But it may have been my shadow. Ye have surely heard something of the Wanderer and his Shadow? One thing, however, is certain: I must keep a tighter hold of it; otherwise it will spoil my reputation.” And once more Zarathustra shook his head and wondered. “What am I to think of it!” said he once more. “Why did the ghost cry: ‘It is time! It is the highest time!’ For what is it then—the highest time?”— Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
查拉图斯特拉在与那第一个火犬的对峙中，从嘲弄转向了教诲。当那喷吐灰烬与浓烟的怪兽终于因愤怒而安静下来，他笑着一口气抛出了第二个火犬的意象。这第二个火犬不再是那个叫嚣着自由、实则只知道将泥浆煮沸的浅薄之物；他呼出的是黄金，是金色的雨，他的核心是笑，一种五彩斑斓的、流动的笑。查拉图斯特拉在这里一举扭转了“深处”的定义。第一个火犬自诩从深处发言，但其养料却来自海…