![]() ![]() ![]() Neurons have central cores, or somas, which carry out the functions of common to all cells, but they also have two kinds of tentacle like appendages – axons and dendrites – that transmit and receive electric pulses. Recent studies have found that neurons are both like and unlike other cells in our bodies. Nietzsche agreed, stating in a letter to his friend that ‘out writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts’. ![]() There was a new forcefulness to it, as though the iron in the machine was being transferred onto the page. This typewriter saved Nietzsche, at least for a time, as once he’d learned to use it, he was able to transfer words from his mind to the page with his eyes shut, thus avoiding the crippling headaches that came with regular writing.īut the device had a subtler effect on his work: one of his closest friends, Heinrich Koselitz, noticed a change in the style of his writing. In desperation, he ordered a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, basically a typewriter, but funky in the extreme, and in fact the fastest one made to date: with practice one could type up to 800 characters a minute. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes II (#shorts)įriedrich Nietzsche suffered from severe health problems through most of his life, so severe that he had to resign his university post as a professor of philology at the University of Basel when he was just 34 years old in 1879.īy 1881, he found that his vision was failing and that if tried to focus on reading or writing, he would soon be defeated by crushing headaches and even vomiting. ![]()
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