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—— But—let’s imagine—if God is dead, then the One is that who carries around, around its neck, the ghost of God, the ghost of its father. God haunts all that we do, perceive, and think: thus, even if God is dead, He still lives on (§3.54).
Death isn’t final. We die before and live after.
I don’t think we ever noticed that God is dead. A madman who announces this[1] can easily be denounced; evidence can show the opposite. And so, through the fog, the One carries on.
[1] Friedrich Nietzsche, Joyful Wisdom, trans. Thomas Common (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1960), §125, p. 167–9. See also Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 41.