What the Night Whispered

At midnight, at the end of the last dance, Zarathustra whispers something into life's ear, and the book refuses to print it. Clancy Martin thinks he knows what it was, and he makes you a promise: he will say it, but not until the very end of our time together. Around that held secret, Book Three closes singing, the notorious whip is disarmed, and joy asks for an eternity that no calendar can hold. Then Book Four opens with a jar of honey, a lesson Martin learned by failing at generosity in Varanasi, and a claim about Nietzsche's final collapse that hardly anyone has dared to make.