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Aftersong: From Low Down this poem is in dialogue with the final section of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil and his ‘‘Aftersong,’’ ‘‘From High Mountains.’’ I am —no: I forget so easily—am not I. Am I another? Ein Andrer ward ich? Did I elude myself? Mir selbst entsprungen? I seek: forgiveness; I seek to forgive. I who yearn to remain, yearn also to surrender, to give up my morning for my afternoon, to die, to speak not from on high mountains but from low down, from the grave. Where are you, friends? Kommt! 183 ...

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