Friedrich Nietzsche 1881 · Sils-Maria
Breakfast & tea
06:30 · start only
“morning (6.30 a.m.) the yolk of a raw egg, tea, and aniseed biscuit (bucolic and nourishing).”
Verbatim excerpt · Friedrich Nietzsche, to his mother
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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Edited by Oscar Levy · translated by Anthony M. Ludovici · Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921
Letter to his mother · Sils-Maria, 24 August 1881
Passage: Letter to his mother · opening paragraph on food
Timing & context
The morning meal is part of his description of recurring daily food. Its time is explicit; no duration is supplied.
Meals, a cold wash, evening rest, and five to seven hours of daily exercise, reported in August 1881. Walking time is shown as an estimated daily allocation.
The routine Nietzsche reports in his letter of 24 August 1881, during his stay in Sils-Maria. The letter describes repeated habits, not only the day it was written.
Further evidence: letter to Peter Gast, 14 August 1881 ↗