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    "title": "Dionysian Dithyrambs",
    "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
    "date": "1888, authorized manuscript",
    "summary": "Dionysian Dithyrambs must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.",
    "learning": "To read Dionysian Dithyrambs, name the attacked value, recover its target and period, then test a counter-perspective without turning provocation into dogma.",
    "long_summary": "In Dionysian Dithyrambs, canonical identity follows the eKGWB editorial block and preserves its source anchor. Critical German and AI-generated French and English remain distinct manifestations.\n\nThis reading requires following the polemic’s target, the adopted mask, and shifts between periods. An isolated aphorism is neither a complete system nor permission to crush another person.",
    "historical_context": "The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. They do not claim to show the exact scene of writing.",
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        "communication": "Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.",
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            "text": "Klage der Ariadne. Wer wärmt mich, wer liebt mich noch? Gebt heisse Hände! gebt Herzens-Kohlenbecken! Hingestreckt, schaudernd, Halbtodtem gleich, dem man die Füsse wärmt, geschüttelt ach! von unbekannten Fiebern, zitternd vor spitzen eisigen Frostpfeilen, von dir gejagt, Gedanke! Unnennbarer! Verhüllter! Entsetzlicher! Du Jäger hinter Wolken! Darnieder geblitzt von dir, du höhnisch Auge, das mich aus Dunklem anblickt! So liege ich, biege mich, winde mich, gequält von allen ewigen Martern, getroffen von dir, grausamster Jäger, du unbekannter — Gott… Triff tiefer! Triff Ein Mal noch! Zerstich, zerbrich dies Herz! Was soll dies Martern mit zähnestumpfen Pfeilen? Was blickst du wieder der Menschen-Qual nicht müde, mit schadenfrohen Götter-Blitz-Augen? Nicht tödten willst du, nur martern, martern? Wozu — mich martern, du schadenfroher unbekannter Gott? Haha! Du schleichst heran bei solcher Mitternacht?… Was willst du? Sprich! Du drängst mich, drückst mich, Ha! schon viel zu nahe! Du hörst mich athmen, du behorchst mein Herz, du Eifersüchtiger! — worauf doch eifersüchtig? Weg! Weg! wozu die Leiter? willst du hinein, ins Herz, einsteigen, in meine heimlichsten Gedanken einsteigen? Schamloser! Unbekannter! Dieb! Was willst du dir erstehlen? Was willst du dir erhorchen? was willst du dir erfoltern, du Folterer! du — Henker-Gott! Oder soll ich, dem Hunde gleich, vor dir mich wälzen? Hingebend, begeistert ausser mir dir Liebe — zuwedeln? Umsonst! Stich weiter! Grausamster Stachel! Kein Hund — dein Wild nur bin ich, grausamster Jäger! deine stolzeste Gefangne, du Räuber hinter Wolken… Sprich endlich! Du Blitz-Verhüllter! Unbekannter! sprich! Was willst du, Wegelagerer, von — mir?… Wie? Lösegeld? Was willst du Lösegelds? Verlange Viel — das räth mein Stolz! und rede kurz — das räth mein andrer Stolz! Haha! Mich — willst du? mich? mich — ganz?… Haha! Und marterst mich, Narr, der du bist, zermarterst meinen Stolz? Gieb Liebe mir — wer wärmt mich noch? wer liebt mich noch? gieb heisse Hände, gieb Herzens-Kohlenbecken, gieb mir, der Einsamsten, dieErratum:d<e>in lies:die Nach KGW/KGB Nachberichte Eis, ach! siebenfaches Eis nach Feinden selber, nach Feinden schmachten lehrt, gieb, ja ergieb grausamster Feind, mir — dich!… Davon! Da floh er selber, mein einziger Genoss, mein grosser Feind, mein Unbekannter, mein Henker-Gott!… Nein! komm zurück! Mit allen deinen Martern! All meine Thränen laufen zu dir den Lauf und meine letzte Herzensflamme dir glüht sie auf. Oh komm zurück, mein unbekannter Gott!Erratum:Got! lies:Gott! Nach KGW/KGB Nachberichte mein Schmerz! mein letztes Glück!… Ein Blitz. Dionysos wird in smaragdener Schönheit sichtbar. Dionysos: Sei klug, Ariadne!… Du hast kleine Ohren, du hast meine Ohren: steck ein kluges Wort hinein! — Muss man sich nicht erst hassen, wenn man sich lieben soll?… Ich bin dein Labyrinth…",
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            "text": "Ariadne’s Lament.\n\nWho warms me, who still loves me? Give hot hands! Give heart-braziers! Stretched out, shuddering, like one half-dead whose feet they warm, shaken, alas, by unknown fevers, trembling before pointed icy arrows of frost, hunted by you, Thought! Unnameable! Veiled! Terrible! You hunter behind clouds!\n\nStruck down by your lightning, you mocking eye that gazes at me from darkness! Thus I lie, bend, writhe, tormented by all eternal tortures, struck by you, cruelest hunter, you unknown god...\n\nStrike deeper! Strike once more! Stab through, break this heart! Why this torture with blunt-toothed arrows? Why do you gaze again, never weary of human agony, with malicious divine lightning-eyes? You do not wish to kill, only torture, torture? Why torture me, malicious unknown god?\n\nHaha! You creep near at such midnight?... What do you want? Speak! You crowd me, press me, ha! already far too near! You hear me breathe, you listen to my heart, you jealous one! But jealous of what? Away! Away! Why the ladder? Do you want to climb inside, into the heart, into my most secret thoughts? Shameless one! Unknown one! Thief! What would you steal? What would you overhear? What would you torture out of me, torturer, executioner-god!\n\nOr shall I roll before you like a dog? Surrendering, enraptured, beside myself, wag love to you?\n\nIn vain! Stab on! Cruelest sting! No dog, only your quarry am I, cruelest hunter! Your proudest captive, robber behind clouds... Speak at last! You lightning-veiled one! Unknown one, speak! What do you want, highwayman, from me?...\n\nWhat? Ransom? What do you want as ransom? Demand much, thus my pride advises! And speak briefly, thus my other pride advises!\n\nHaha! Me you want? Me? Me entirely?...\n\nHaha! And you torture me, fool that you are, torture my pride to death? Give me love. Who warms me still? Who loves me still? Give hot hands, give heart-braziers, give me, the most solitary, whomErratum:d<e>in read:the According to KGW/KGB Postscript ice, alas, sevenfold ice, teaches to yearn for enemies themselves, for enemies. Give, yes, surrender yourself to me, cruelest enemy!...\n\nGone! He himself fled, my only companion, my great enemy, my unknown one, my executioner-god!...\n\nNo! Come back! With all your torments! All my tears run their course toward you, and for you my heart’s last flame flares up. Oh come back, my unknown God!Erratum:God! read:God! According to KGW/KGB Postscript My pain! My last happiness!...\n\nA flash of lightning. Dionysus becomes visible in emerald beauty.\n\nDionysus:\nBe wise, Ariadne!...\nYou have little ears, you have my ears:\nput a wise word into them!\nMust one not first hate oneself\nif one is to love oneself?...\nI am your labyrinth...",
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            "text": "Plainte d’Ariane.\n\nQui me réchauffe, qui m’aime encore ?\nDonnez des mains brûlantes !\ndonnez des braseros pour le cœur !\nÉtendue, frissonnante,\npareille à un demi-mort dont on réchauffe les pieds,\nsecouée, ah ! par des fièvres inconnues,\ntremblant devant les flèches aiguës et glacées du gel,\ntraquée par toi, Pensée !\nInnommable ! Voilée ! Terrible !\nToi, chasseur derrière les nuages !\nFoudroyée à terre par toi,\nœil railleur qui me regardes depuis les ténèbres !\n\nAinsi je gis,\nje me courbe, je me tords, tourmentée\npar toutes les tortures éternelles,\nfrappée\npar toi, le plus cruel des chasseurs,\ntoi, inconnu, Dieu...\n\nFrappe plus profond !\nFrappe encore une fois !\nTransperce, brise ce cœur !\nPourquoi cette torture\navec des flèches aux dents émoussées ?\nPourquoi portes-tu encore ce regard,\njamais las de la douleur humaine,\navec les yeux foudroyants d’un dieu à la joie mauvaise ?\nTu ne veux pas tuer,\nseulement torturer, torturer ?\nPourquoi me torturer,\ndieu inconnu à la joie mauvaise ?\n\nHa-ha !\nTu t’approches furtivement\npar une telle minuit ?...\nQue veux-tu ?\nParle !\nTu me serres, tu me presses,\nah ! déjà bien trop près !\nTu m’entends respirer,\ntu épies mon cœur,\njaloux que tu es !\nmais jaloux de quoi ?\nVa-t’en ! Va-t’en !\npourquoi cette échelle ?\nVeux-tu entrer,\nmonter dans mon cœur,\nmonter dans mes pensées les plus secrètes ?\nImpudent ! Inconnu ! Voleur !\nQue veux-tu me dérober ?\nQue veux-tu surprendre en m’écoutant ?\nque veux-tu obtenir de moi par la torture,\ntortionnaire !\ntoi, Dieu-bourreau !\nOu dois-je, comme le chien,\nme rouler devant toi ?\nAbandonnée, transportée hors de moi,\nfrétiller d’amour pour toi ?\n\nEn vain !\nPique encore !\nAiguillon le plus cruel !\nJe ne suis pas un chien, rien que ton gibier,\nchasseur le plus cruel !\nta plus fière captive,\nbrigand derrière les nuages...\nParle enfin !\nToi que l’éclair voile ! Inconnu ! parle !\nQue veux-tu, rôdeur de grand chemin, de moi ?...\n\nComment ?\nUne rançon ?\nQue veux-tu pour rançon ?\nExige beaucoup, mon orgueil te le conseille !\net parle brièvement, mon autre orgueil te le conseille !\n\nHa-ha !\nC’est moi que tu veux ? moi ?\nmoi tout entière ?...\n\nHa-ha !\nEt tu me tortures, fou que tu es,\ntu tortures à mort mon orgueil ?\nDonne-moi de l’amour, qui me réchauffe encore ?\nqui m’aime encore ?\ndonne des mains brûlantes,\ndonne des braseros pour le cœur,\ndonne-moi, à moi, la plus solitaire,\nà qui d<e> la glaceErratum : lire « die » au lieu de « d<e>in », d’après les rapports complémentaires de la KGW/KGB,\nah ! une glace septuple,\napprend à languir même après des ennemis,\naprès des ennemis,\ndonne, oui, abandonne-toi,\nennemi le plus cruel,\nà moi !...\n\nParti !\nLe voilà qui a fui lui-même,\nmon unique compagnon,\nmon grand ennemi,\nmon inconnu,\nmon Dieu-bourreau !...\n\nNon !\nreviens !\nAvec toutes tes tortures !\nToutes mes larmes\ncourent vers toi,\net ma dernière flamme du cœur,\nc’est pour toi qu’elle s’embrase.\nOh ! reviens,\nmon Dieu inconnu !Erratum : lire « Gott! » au lieu de « Got! », d’après les rapports complémentaires de la KGW/KGB\nma douleur !\nmon dernier bonheur !...\n\nUn éclair. Dionysos devient visible dans une beauté d’émeraude.\n\nDionysos :\nSois avisée, Ariane !...\nTu as de petites oreilles,\ntu as mes oreilles :\nmets-y une parole avisée !\nNe faut-il pas d’abord se haïr\nsi l’on doit s’aimer ?...\nJe suis ton labyrinthe...",
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