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>>20408588

>“Lou von Salomé met Paul Rée in Italy, and the two quickly became sexually involved. Nietzsche joined the two in May 1882 (on some accounts, their first meeting was late April of that year). He was invited by both Paul Rée to meet this bright young Russian woman, whom Rée thought to be close to Nietzsche philosophically. That the two quickly found each other’s company of interest is certainly true, as is evident in their letters to one another (some letters are below). At any rate, the three – Rée, Nietzsche and Salomé – roamed Italy making plans for the winter. At this time Nietzsche proposed to marry Salomé twice (some sources claim he did so three times), first asking Rée to do this on his behalf; and again, when he realised Rée to be his competition, and after they spent some time alone at Lake Orta, Nietzsche proposed to her in Lucerne (Luzern). He was, according to Salomé, desperately smitten with love, but these feelings were not mutual.”

>During the April 1, 1908, meeting of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Paul Federn claimed that Nietzsche had lived a homosexual life for a period during the 1880s and contracted his lues [syphilis] in a homosexual bordello in Genoa. The acquisition of the infection from a homosexual brothel was confirmed by Sigmund Freud, who cited Otto Binswanger as his source.”

>”Nietzsche's homosexuality was widely known in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, with Nietzsche's close friend Paul Deussen claiming that "he was a man who had never touched a woman."”

>”Gradually it has become clear to me,'' Nietzsche wrote in 1887, ''what every philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”

>Turin, January 1888—a dreary month, even in Italy. Candida Pino is doing her rounds of the inn she keeps with her husband, Davide. She hears odd noises coming from the room of one of her lodgers. She knows she shouldn’t, but curiosity gets the best of her—she leans down and peers into the keyhole. Inside, she sees a naked man prancing around in a state of rapturous ecstasy. Who is this wild dancer? You know him as the guy who said “God is dead.”

So the whole Superman thing was a failed cope?

>>16893195
wrong, the syphilis he contracted from his suicidal bugchasing spree after getting cucked by Salome caused that.

>>13557578
these guys