Thus spake the king on the right, and seized the hand of Zarathustra i… — Thus Spake Zarathustra
SAPIR 861
Thus spake the king on the right, and seized the hand of Zarathustra in order to kiss it; but Zarathustra checked his veneration, and stepped back frightened, fleeing as it were, silently and suddenly into the far distance. After a little while, however, he was again at home with his guests, looked at them with clear scrutinising eyes, and said:
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