Are you on your third exploration of Nietzsche's oeuvre

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Are you on your third exploration of Nietzsche's oeuvre yet, /lit/? This is where it really begins.

First you read him as a teenager without much patience or context and cherry pick and misunderstand.

On your second visit you are embarrassed for your first interpretation but not yet distanced for it. This is often in your early twenties. You are more well informed and have a more in depth understand of philosophy in general. But in this phase, people still consider their teen Nietzsche to be Nietzsche. In other words, Nietzsche's work is tainted for them by their first experience. Their former idolatry sickens them. This is the time where most people cast Nietzsche aside because they confuse him with their own former incompetent readings. People in this age like to think of themselves as having overcome their teenage years, being more sensible, more adult. There is a certain flirting with common sense that they consider maturity and like to dismiss Nietzsche while secretly dismissing their former selves and casting off the things they associate with it. They throw out Nietzsche like an old band shirt. Like their adolescent poetry. This is a necessity.

Then some years later, in your late twenties perhaps, you may feel enticed to read some Nietzsche again. Maybe you've encountered a quote or found an old paperback laying around. And this is where great things start happening. You've embraced him once and you've dismissed him once. In both cases probably largely for the wrong reasons. But having loved and despised Nietzsche's work, you are finally able to engage with it properly.

>When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he paused, like one who had not said his last word; and long did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand. At last he spake thus--and his voice had changed:
>I now go alone, my disciples! Ye also now go away, and alone! So will I have it.
>Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you.
>The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
>One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar. And why will ye not pluck at my wreath?
>Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
>Ye say, ye believe in Zarathustra? But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers!
>Ye had not yet sought yourselves: then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
>Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
>Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you. And once again shall ye have become friends unto me, and children of one hope: then will I be with you for the third time, to celebrate the great noontide with you.