The vision of the world granted to Nietzsche does not inaugurate a more or less regular succession of landscapes or stilllifes, extending over a period of forty years or so; it is, rather, a parody of the process of recollection of an event: a single actor will play the whole of it in pantomime in the course of a single solemn day because the whole of it reaches expression and then disappears once again in the space of just one day even though it may appear to have taken place between December and January in a realm above and beyond the usual rational calendar.