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Morgenröthe
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1881)

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Aurora The Dawn of Day

1. 1
In questo libro troviamo al lavoro un «essere sotterraneo», uno che trivella, scava, scalza. Si vedrà, posto che si abbiano occhi per un tale lavoro in profondità —, come egli avanzi lentamente, cautamente, con delicata inesorabilità, senza che si tradisca troppo l'affanno che ogni lunga privazione d'aria e di luce comporta; lo si potrebbe perfino dire contento del suo oscuro lavoro. Non pare forse che una qualche fede lo guidi, che una consolazione lo ricompensi? Che voglia forse avere la sua lunga tenebra, il suo mondo incomprensibile, nascosto, enigmatico, perché sa che avrà anche il suo mattino, la sua redenzione, la sua aurora… Certo egli farà ritorno: non chiedetegli che cosa vuole là sotto, egli stesso, questo apparente Trofonio ed essere sotterraneo, ve lo dirà, quando di nuovo si sarà «fatto uomo». Si disimpara del tutto a tacere, se così a lungo si è stati, come lui, una talpa, soli.

In this book we find a “subterrestrial” at work, digging, mining, undermining. You can see him, always provided that you have eyes for such deep work,—how he makes his way slowly, cautiously, gently but surely, without showing signs of the weariness that usually accompanies a long privation of light and air. He might even be called happy, despite his labours in the dark. Does it not seem as if some faith were leading him on, some solace recompensing him for his toil? Or that he himself desires a long period of darkness, an unintelligible, hidden, enigmatic something, knowing as he does that he will in time have his own morning, his own redemption, his own rosy dawn?—Yea, verily he will return: ask him not what he seeketh in the depths; for he himself will tell you, this apparent Trophonius and subterrestrial, whensoever he once again becomes man. One easily unlearns how to hold one’s tongue when one has for so long been a mole, and all alone, like him.—

ever: Ever means at any time.
return: To return is to go back to a place.
rest: To rest is to stop being active while the body gets back its strength.
alone: If someone is alone, they are not with another person.
thin: If someone or something is thin, they are not fat.
hidden: Hidden means to be not easily noticed or too hard to find.
lone: If someone or something is lone, they are the only one of that kind.
earn: To earn means to get money for the work you do.
period: A period is an amount of time when something happens.
sign: A sign is a notice giving information, directions, a warning, etc.
own: To own something means to have it. That thing belongs to you.
gain: If you gain something, you get more of it.

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Morgenröthe Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1881)

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Aurora		The Dawn of Day
1.		1
In questo libro troviamo al lavoro un «essere sotterraneo», uno che trivella, scava, scalza. Si vedrà, posto che si abbiano occhi per un tale lavoro in profondità —, come egli avanzi lentamente, cautamente, con delicata inesorabilità, senza che si tradisca troppo l'affanno che ogni lunga privazione d'aria e di luce comporta; lo si potrebbe perfino dire contento del suo oscuro lavoro. Non pare forse che una qualche fede lo guidi, che una consolazione lo ricompensi? Che voglia forse avere la sua lunga tenebra, il suo mondo incomprensibile, nascosto, enigmatico, perché sa che avrà anche il suo mattino, la sua redenzione, la sua aurora… Certo egli farà ritorno: non chiedetegli che cosa vuole là sotto, egli stesso, questo apparente Trofonio ed essere sotterraneo, ve lo dirà, quando di nuovo si sarà «fatto uomo». Si disimpara del tutto a tacere, se così a lungo si è stati, come lui, una talpa, soli.		In this book we find a “subterrestrial” at work, digging, mining, undermining. You can see him, always provided that you have eyes for such deep work,—how he makes his way slowly, cautiously, gently but surely, without showing signs of the weariness that usually accompanies a long privation of light and air. He might even be called happy, despite his labours in the dark. Does it not seem as if some faith were leading him on, some solace recompensing him for his toil? Or that he himself desires a long period of darkness, an unintelligible, hidden, enigmatic something, knowing as he does that he will in time have his own morning, his own redemption, his own rosy dawn?—Yea, verily he will return: ask him not what he seeketh in the depths; for he himself will tell you, this apparent Trophonius and subterrestrial, whensoever he once again becomes man. One easily unlearns how to hold one’s tongue when one has for so long been a mole, and all alone, like him.—
		ever: Ever means at any time. return: To return is to go back to a place. rest: To rest is to stop being active while the body gets back its strength. alone: If someone is alone, they are not with another person. thin: If someone or something is thin, they are not fat. hidden: Hidden means to be not easily noticed or too hard to find. lone: If someone or something is lone, they are the only one of that kind. earn: To earn means to get money for the work you do. period: A period is an amount of time when something happens. sign: A sign is a notice giving information, directions, a warning, etc. own: To own something means to have it. That thing belongs to you. gain: If you gain something, you get more of it.

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