"In three distiches Nietzsche tells how this companion, Zarathustra, entered into his life;
'Sils-Maria
I sat there waiting - waiting for nothing,
Enjoying, beyond good and evil, now
The light, now the shade; there was only
The day, the lake, the noon, time without end.
Then, my friend, suddenly one became two -
And Zarathustra passed by me'. ".
[The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche, D.Halevy 1911]