Alla Ricerca Del Piacere (Remastered)

Quote, "What is the monkey to man?

Contemptuous mirth or painful truth?"

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He lowered the book, looked into her eyes, then continued.

Quote, "And what is man to the Superman?

Still mirth, a painful truth?"

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Do you agree with Nietzsche?

The woman, then, tricks the brute and the superman.

You're staring at me.

Oh, I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to.

I assure you, I'm not a ghost.

No, it's just that I imagined you differently.

Oh, how differently? Hmm?

I don't know. Having read your books, I...

Well, I...

You imagined me to be...

a sea monster.

With a hundred eyes and a cavernous mouth.

You thought at night I grew hands long enough to slap the moon.

But that if I should become little once again,

I'd cry a river of tears.

Now, isn't that so?

Alas, you see me in this disguise.

It's modesty that doesn't allow me to be myself.

Come, I'll show you something.

Now you see that nail?

I placed it there exactly five years ago.

I knew what I wanted then.

It's taken me five years, but I've got it now.

It's mine.

A masterpiece.

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