American Nietzsche

"Emerson bathed Nietzsche in images of the intellectual life as life on the open sea, as circles of waves emanating outward from the active intellect: 'Struggling and undulating of the most diverse currents, ebbing and flowing, all to the eternal ocean." And then, suddenly, that monster-wave appears, the blood runs hot with fear, a gift from a dead sister, "The Collected Writings of Nietzsche." The self drowns, slowly at first, with every poetic utterance, to fall off the edge of the world, to be reborn again in the sunrise of a new world. http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780226705811-0