[NobodysFreak]

To everyone who's replied,

I didn't forget about this discussion... I just haven't had time as my job search has become a full-time job itself.

Having said that, I'd like to address a point that Madnak brought up. Namely, did Nietzsche eventually give into his suffering and would his life had been better if he had been able to win Salome's heart.

As to the first part, Its my opinion that the suffering in Nietzsche's life provided fuel for his creative fires. Nietzsche himself would claim this and it's a point I make in my thesis.

In response to the second part, I'm of the opion that his life would have been drastically different had he been able to win over Salome. I speculated on this briefly in my thesis. Nietzsche's lonliness is well known. If he were to obtain the relationship he wanted and needed he might not have gone insane. But again, we have no way of knowing this. He very well still might have gone insane (His father died of what was called "softening of the brain") even if he were with Salome, but I certainly think that we'd never have Zarathustra and his last and most productive years would have probably not been as productive or influential.