Note 129 — Chapter I · THE MAN
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He pleads guilty more than once to an offensive manner of speech when he was angry. We can dimly imagine what he was like in moments such as these. Hornstein, Nietzsche, and others had experience of it. Nietzsche's account of his scene with Wagner has become classical. See Daniel Halévy's Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, Eng. trans., p. 167.