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In the penultimate section of Part Three, “The Second Dance Song,” Nietzsche again encounters the wily temptress, Life. Having internalized the thought of the eternal return, he has overcome the spirit of gravity that weighed him down. He can approach Life with greater confidence, and he now engages with her in a playful, bantering exchange. It is an exchange of equals, and wily Life chastises him for his brash attempt at mastery over her. She even envies his wisdom and fears he might leave her.

At the end of their encounter, Zarathustra accepts the boundaries that Life has drawn for them – a love that respects each other's freedom and independence – and affirms his relationship with her.

Nietzsche thus completes the main arc of his philosophical drama.

It started with an ambitious search to solve modern man's malaise. It concludes on a quiet, personal note. His protagonist Zarathustra has set aside his wisdom and learns to honor the mystery and inscrutability of life – and to find (temporary) joy and fulfillment in its sublime, transitory moments.