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author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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description: aphoristic work where nietzsche plays with song, experiment, and thought, introducing themes like eternal recurrence and the death of god.
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id: The Gay Science
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title: The Gay Science
translator:
  - Walter Kaufmann
year: 1882
authors: Friedrich Nietzsche
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> \[!note\] The connotation of "gay" in Nietzsche's dialectics
>
> The original title was “la gayza scienza”, and “gay” doesn’t necessarily means homosexuality, rather flexible and joyful.
> If word for word to be transcribed, it would meant The Joyful Science.

Mentions the Death of God and start the introduction to the doctrine of eternal occurrence

- [ ] aphorism 24