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NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH

1844–1900

Eternal Recurrence (The Layer Cake Pages)

Nietzsche: imagine that everything you have lived returns in identical sequence, infinitely; can you affirm it? CoCA's Layer Cake Pages (§2.2.2) propose a smaller test: every revision visible through every later revision, every meeting carried forward. The institution must be able to affirm its own record. Each entry must be one we can stand to re-read. The doctrine is not optimism; it is editorial discipline.

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