It was high above a Brooklyn street. They were standing on their balcony. He peered down over the edge. "It's not really vertigo," he said, "not quite a fear of heights, but a certainty that such a flight would end my life, and it's right here before me." .... "Are you telling me you want to take the leap?" She said, "If so I'll go back inside, give you some peace. I'll pretend to sleep." .... "I have no such affliction! It was merely transfixion. But," he said, "I think I finally understand that bit written by Nietzsche." .... "Even though he was a madman?" .... "Gaze not long into the abyss. It will gaze also into you."
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