But whatever did happen to the horse?

The Turin Horse (2011) - IMDb: "1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while traveling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse's neck to protect it then collapsed to the ground. In less than one month, Nietzsche would be diagnosed with a serious mental illness that would make him bed-ridden and speechless for the next eleven years until his death. But whatever did happen to the horse?"

Yes, well we can ask about the horse no doubt. But the question also persists. What happened to Nietzsche? The words in the sentence above are accurate but unsatisfactory as they apply to Nietzsche. What is a serious mental illness? Bed-ridden? Speechless? The man had just completed the forst of vive intended works aimed at revaluing the values that had been willed by people since forever. I can infer that this task alone, given his own false starts, would have induced terminal speechlessness even in a lesser soul. But I am not sure he was as comatose as his keepers would suggest. Were I to do a sequel I would focus on Neitzsche. My test for such a sequel would be my book Abba's Way which is a gloss on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. (If I remember correctly, he was living in Turin, though he was indeed a traveler, a nomad of the universe.)


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