ABSTRACT
For instance, in Voltaire's Candide, when the philosopher Pangloss has finished his long talk about the world, that it is le meilleur des mondes and that everything in it is the best thing possible, Candide calls his attention to his most disgusting venereal disease. The world war helped a great many people to realize what Zarathustra means, or to what it refers at least. Zarathustra is expecting some effect from the lightning, yet nothing happens apparently, so assumes that has not yet said the right word to reach the audiencethe word which penetrates and thinks that might reach them if speaks of the most contemptible of all things. Nietzsche could not expect an immediate reaction to his sermon because it must first go into the unconscious, into the belly of collectivity, and the reaction will appear in a quarter where he did not expect it at all.
