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Wright State University

Philosophy Faculty Publications

1979

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Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor Jan 1979

Tom Robbins' Chink: A Posthumous Zarathustra, Charles Taylor

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This essay examines the ideas of one of the central characters in Tom Robbins’ 1977 novel, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues/ in relation to the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. It makes no argument for any influence of Nietzsche upon Robbins but rather considers similarities in thought as such.

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