Apollo sleeps -- or at least fades into the shadows -- as Dionysus rules; and in the morning, Dionysus takes over the reins as Dionysus goes to sleep and/or fades back into the shadows...
This is Anaxamander's philosophy, combined with Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy', as synthesized here in Hegel's Hotel...
This, incidentally, is the anniversary of Nietzsche's nervous breakdown and collapse into insanity. There are conflicting reports on the actual year of this occurrence, 1889 or 1890. 'Introducing Nietzsche' by Laurence Gane and Kitty Chan, 1999, says that it was 1889. Here is one of the reports of Nietzsche's breakdown.
From the internet...
In 1889, Nietzsche tragically suffered a nervous breakdown and was overcome by mental illness in his mid forties, allegedly brought on by tertiary syphilis. The actual breakdown started in Turin, where Nietzsche collapsed with his arms around the neck of a horse that was being whipped by a coachman. He became hopelessly insane and on August 25, 1900 at the age 56, Nietzsche died.
