Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Page 10

关于他最初构思这个想法的经过，他在1888年秋天写成的自传体文章《瞧，这个人》中有以下这段话：

In regard to his first conception of this idea, his autobiographical sketch, "Ecce Homo", written in the autumn of 1888, contains the following passage:—

「我作品的核心思想——即万物的永恒轮回——这是所有可能的肯定哲学公式中最崇高的一个，它最初在1881年8月浮现在我的脑海中。」

"The fundamental idea of my work—namely, the Eternal Recurrence of all things—this highest of all possible formulae of a Yea-saying philosophy, first occurred to me in August 1881.

「我把这个念头记在一张纸上，并在后记中写道：超越人类与时间六千英尺！」

I made a note of the thought on a sheet of paper, with the postscript: 6,000 feet beyond men and time!

「那天我恰好在西尔瓦普拉纳湖畔的树林中漫步，在距苏尔莱不远处，我在一块巨大的、锥形的、高耸的岩石旁驻足。」

That day I happened to be wandering through the woods alongside of the lake of Silvaplana, and I halted beside a huge, pyramidal and towering rock not far from Surlei.

「就在那一刻，这个念头击中了我。」

It was then that the thought struck me.

「现在回顾起来，我发现就在这次灵感降临的整整两个月前，我已经得到了它即将到来的预兆——以我口味突然而决定性的转变为形式，尤其是在音乐方面。」

Looking back now, I find that exactly two months previous to this inspiration, I had had an omen of its coming in the form of a sudden and decisive alteration in my tastes—more particularly in music.

「甚至可以说，整部《查拉图斯特拉如是说》都可以被视为一部音乐作品。」

It would even be possible to consider all 'Zarathustra' as a musical composition.

「无论如何，促成这部作品诞生的一个极为必要的条件，是我自身在聆听艺术方面的一次复兴。」

At all events, a very necessary condition in its production was a renaissance in myself of the art of hearing.

「1881年春天，我在维琴察附近的一个小山间度假胜地（雷科阿罗）度过，在那里，我和我的朋友兼大师彼得·加斯特——也是一位获得新生的人——发现那盘旋在我们头顶的凤凰之乐，比以往任何时候都披着更轻盈、更明亮的羽毛。」

In a small mountain resort (Recoaro) near Vicenza, where I spent the spring of 1881, I and my friend and Maestro, Peter Gast—also one who had been born again—discovered that the phoenix music that hovered over us, wore lighter and brighter plumes than it had done theretofore.