The idea of eternal recurrence gives point,
again, to a familiar anecdote. This concerns a joker who goes to an inn, eats
his fill and then says to the innkeeper:
“You and I will be here again in a million
years: let me pay you then.”
“Very well,” replies the quick-witted innkeeper,
“but first pay me for the beefsteak you ate the last time you were here – a
million years ago.”
- as related in The
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter V, by H. L. Mencken, 1913
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