ESS OF BEING protuber- French e they the If every second of our lives recurs we are nailed to eternity as Jesus Chri It is a terrifying prospect.In the world weight of unbearable responsibility lies hea we make.That is why Nietzsche called the return the heaviest of burdens(das schwerste Ge If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, can stand out against it in all their splendid lightnes ber of times, But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness sp The heaviest of burdens crushes us,we sink benea s to the ground.But in the love poetry of every age, longs to be weighed down by the man's body.Th of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of he ntense fulfillment.The heavier the burden,the closer 215.23 me to the earth,the more real and truthful they CELINE the absolute absence of a burden causes man to ir,to soar into the heights,take leave of the hly being,and become only half real,his s they are insignificant. e choose?Weight or lightness? his very question in the sixth century world divided into pairs of opposites: arseness,warmth/cold,being/non- ition he called positive(light,fine- er negative.We might find this ive poles childishly simple ex- is positive,weight or light- positive,weight negative.