《查拉图斯特拉如是说·第三部》第7节
WHO is the shepherd into whose throat the serpent thus crawled? WHO is the man into whose throat all the heaviest and blackest will thus crawl? —The shepherd however bit as my cry had admonished him; he bit with a strong bite! Far away did he spit the head of the serpent—: and sprang up.— No longer shepherd, no longer man—a transfigured being, a light-surrounded being, that LAUGHED! Never on earth laughed a man as HE laughed! O my brethren, I heard a laughter which was no human laughter,—and now gnaweth a thirst at me, a longing that is never allayed. My longing for that laughter gnaweth at me: oh, how can I still endure to live! And how could I endure to die at present!— Thus spake Zarathustra.
注释摘要
这段是查拉图斯特拉在船上向一群被称作“大胆的冒险者”和“谜的沉醉者”的水手们讲述的幻象的高潮和收束。他此前刚刚向那个侏儒——也就是压在他肩头的“重压之魔”——展示了“瞬间”这道门，以及与它相连的两条通往永恒的长路，并由此引出了那个骇人的念头：万物是否皆已存在过，是否皆将永恒地回返。而就在这时，幻象本身突然断裂，他被一种凄厉的犬吠声拉入了一个非现实的恐怖场景…