
Thus silenced Zarathustra.
Just as I began to harbour this secret thought of learning the arts of space travel without having to turn gay or have the government sponsor my trip, my guru, Arthur C Clarke, famous for 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died. This is definitely a sad moment for Friedrich Nietzche’s apprentices worldwide.
I don’t know if Clarke was ever a Nietzchean, but when they made 2001: A Space Odyssey a movie, they used Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra a.k.a Thus Spoke Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, its theme song. Strauss wrote that score based on Nietzche’s book of the same title.
So, without space travel, I will now never know if God really is dead, or if Superman (depicted as Übermensch) exists, or if Hillary Clinton actually have a video tape of Monica Lewinsky smoking a Bill Clinton cigar.
And Elvis will never get that free ride back home to Earth after being kidnapped by aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

