ABSTRACT
Zarathustra has just preached that man ought to grow beyond himself into the Superman. But Nietzsche does not grow; he does not take roots by assimilating his shadow. This substantiates our interpretation that the rope-dancer is Nietzsche himself in his own form or in the form of Zarathustra; and the buffoon is the part of the shadow that holds divine power, the power over death and life. There are even people say it would be simple to regulate prices, for instance; we have ten thousand good propositions but nobody shows the way to carry them out. Under ordinary circumstances that rope-dancer would have gone across as he has often done, and it is merely that Zarathustra has made his appearance in the place this disaster happens. One could say it was Nietzsche's mind or his consciousness; or this rope-dancer symbolizes Nietzsche himself, though in a way he is much less than Nietzsche, in so far as he is a shadow.
