Afterword
Due to his messy handwriting and sight complications,
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche acquired a typewriter. It was a Malling-Hansen “Writing Ball”.
Danish inventor Rasmus Malling-Hansen’s family was immersed in the spiritual world. Johanne, one of Rasmus’ daughters, even became a psychic medium.
Nietzsche expected the typewriter to transform his way of thinking. “It will enable me to write books that are the opposite of those I have written,” he predicted. However, the typewriter was damaged during shipping, which led it to produce typing errors.
The philosopher would try over and over to find a way to use it regardless. In his room, undisturbed, Nietzsche spent hours teaching his fingers “to dance with the Malling-Hansen”. He wrote of dancing himself “as if something supernatural” echoed out of him.
Long after his death, a tiny piece of paper was torn from one of Nietzsche’s typed manuscripts.
Consequently a psychic medium used it to contact him.
And ask him a single question:
What was your dance like?
Afterword
Installation. The spirit of Nietzsche remembers how to dance
