Also Sprach Die Wahnstimme

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

("So spake the crazy-voices")

Verona, Italy
October 1889.

Kaiser Wilhelm II is travelling through Italy, on his way back to Berlin from attending his cousin's wedding Greece. Among the crowd waiting to view him at the railway station is a deranged writer named Frederick Nietzsche. Nietzsche fires four rounds from a revolver, striking and killing the Kaiser before he himself is gunned down. A search of his rented room turns up a stack of bizarre letters and manuscripts, claiming himself to be the Antichrist, threating to kill the Kaiser, Otto Von Bismarck and the Pope; etc.

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The death of the Kaiser means his younger brother, Prince Heinrich, will have to leave the Navy and serve as Regent for quite some time (since Crown Prince Wilhelm IV is only 7 at the time of his father's untimely death). He probably won't fire Otto Von Bismarck ; but will have similar views on the importance of the Navy.

 

[Boto von Ageduch]

Expecting so see more of this!

I mean, not necessarily more ambushes ...

 

[Jimbrock]

Seems interesting.

 

[Emperor-of-New-Zealand]

In 1889?

I smell some interesting butterflies

Good luck! I will read this as often as I can.

 

[charl]

In the past everyone will be famous, I see.

Sounds interesting, at any rate. I wonder what implications this will have on the future of philosophy.

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

("So spake the crazy-voices")

Is that correct? Shouldn't it be more like »wahnsinnige Stimme« or some such? Shouldn't 'Wahnstimme' be more like, um, 'weak voice'? I was thinking the 'still small voice' from the Old Testament.

 

[Saepe Fidelis]

I dunno about Nietzsche; was he really that insane?
Also, his tone in Also Sprach Zarathustra come soff less of hatred and willing ness to destroy th eold system than a kind of mocking of it and parody (i.e. using Biblical references ina text htat is very unchristian).
Although, if you've changed his mental illness, then that's different.

Just promise me that there's no alternate Ayn Rand in this TL. Because I would happily lose my favourite philosopher if it meant that c*nt never opened her both and never uttered the words 'what's your premise?'

 

[Nivek]

("So spake the crazy-voices")

Verona, Italy
October 1889.

Kaiser Wilhelm II is travelling through Italy, on his way back to Berlin from attending his cousin's wedding Greece. Among the crowd waiting to view him at the railway station is a deranged writer named Frederick Nietzsche. Nietzsche fires four rounds from a revolver, striking and killing the Kaiser before he himself is gunned down. A search of his rented room turns up a stack of bizarre letters and manuscripts, claiming himself to be the Antichrist, threating to kill the Kaiser, Otto Von Bismarck and the Pope; etc.

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The death of the Kaiser means his younger brother, Prince Heinrich, will have to leave the Navy and serve as Regent for quite some time (since Crown Prince Wilhelm IV is only 7 at the time of his father's untimely death). He probably won't fire Otto Von Bismarck ; but will have similar views on the importance of the Navy.

I think you're stole part of mi idea(but was Wilhelm I not Wilhelm II, that was in hold by studies and pc reasons), well poor Willie, Killed by a Nut Philosophal... well the butterflies now roaming, i will see how advance now... and yes Bismarck gonna have free hand in Deutchland live for 7 seven years more before he become to old to be Kanzler(a least he will make a decent succesor)

waiting for more

 

[Monty Burns]

The question now is what will the new regent do about the navy?

And with Bismarck in charge, I think the reinsurance treaty with the Russians will be prolonged.

 

[Max Sinister]

Interesting premise.

The treaty with Russia will definitely be prolonged. But we should also look to interior German politics. In the elections of 1890, Bismarck lost his parliamentary majority and even thought about a coup to retain power. And around this time, he thought about prolonging the Sozialistengesetz (outlawing all Socialist groups), which the kaiser opposed.

 

[Alikchi]

I know, I shouldn't bump things, but I wanted to express my interest. This is a great premise.

 

[Nietzsche]

I dunno about Nietzsche; was he really that insane?
Also, his tone in Also Sprach Zarathustra come soff less of hatred and willing ness to destroy th eold system than a kind of mocking of it and parody (i.e. using Biblical references ina text htat is very unchristian).
Although, if you've changed his mental illness, then that's different.

Just promise me that there's no alternate Ayn Rand in this TL. Because I would happily lose my favourite philosopher if it meant that c*nt never opened her both and never uttered the words 'what's your premise?'

Nietzsche was, in his later years, insane yes. But he was also entirely incapable of performing the action described. I mean, you can obviously change that, but just physically speaking, he wouldn't be able to kill the Kaiser.

Nor, do I doubt, was he in the state of mind to be able to follow through with it. Nietzsche's last years were some of the saddest ever experienced by a person. Such a great mind turned against itself.