Nietzsche in a nutshell; the cowboy and the Great Lady

Nietzsche in a nutshell; the cowboy and the Great Lady

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

The cowboy sees the world as it should be and although he is always becoming, he never changes. Incapable of personal growth is the cowboy, stuck in his own stories and aphorisms, incorrigible rides the cowboy through life alone dreaming of the Great lady.

The Great lady organizes and manipulates the world and accomplishes life affirmation by purchasing, ordering and stacking the items in her part of the universe.

The cowboy throws the chicken, onions, rice, water and noodles into one pot for a long boil and waits till tomorrow supper to clean the pan after todays eating. Under the stars, the cowboy reclines solo wishing  he had learned to play the guitar to serenade the invisible horses that he protects in principle while he listens in the dark for the music of the spheres as imaginary Time spins backwards across the skies.

The Great Lady never quite eradicates the cowboy, act one scene one, over and over. Somewhere  stacked about the nest is a dusty guitar once played for the cowboy, masquerading as a Pirate, over a tete a tete of boiled cabbage greens. Wrong cowboy, right pirate; Great lady-lonely cowboy. Crazy cowboy, invisible horses sans protector, stalled cart, silent Lady.