By Carlos A. Aguilera
Translated by Todd Ramón Ochoa
For Carmen, the
Farmer
The
afternoon
during
which
Hooper
,
Andrew
alias
"
the
farmer
"
Hooper(
as
his
wife
had
emphasized
in
the
toilette
of
a
bookstore
in
Ohio
)
presented
(
this
one
and
only
time
)
his
"
Book
of
Commentary
on
Nietzsche
"
or
,
his
Book
of
Symptoms
on
Nietzsche
(
as
he
would
later
tell
in
that
long
and
autobiographical
poem
Portrait
of
A
.
Hooper
and
his
Wife
)
he
couldn
'
t
,
even
,
define
,
the
political
value
of
his
book
,
and
for
that
matter
,
the
-
so
called
-
exact
value
of
his
book
,
object
,
which
for
a
while
he
considered
:
an
evident
machine
of
capital
,
and
,
now
,
with
time
,
was
nothing
more
than
,
a
:
discreet
machine
of
capital
,
for
which
Hooper
,
the
farmer
and
,
philosopher
Hooper
,
gave
up
all
rights
to
the
public
sale
of
his
book
,
qualifying
it
as
a
vomitous
brick
fit
for
a
rat
,
and
,
as
a
"
brick
with
hemorrhoids
fit
for
a
rat
"
,
and
,
agreed
,
to
the
2
medium
-
sized
parcels
which
,
were
offered
him
,
by
the
farmers
of
The
Area
(
systematic
place
of
order
and
,
centered
in
order
)
so
that
he
could
devote
himself
to
his
cows
,
or
,
so
that
he
might
make
use
of
his
cows
(
as
was
later
written
in
that
long
and
,
autobiographic
Portrait
)
and
,
as
was
later
written
in
a
2nd
book
about
the
movement
of
the
ill
of
Jena
,
and
,
about
the
illness
described
:
like
the
movement
of
his
cows
,
which,
according
to
Hooper
,
farmer
and
,
philosopher
(
at
the
same
time
)
gave
answer
with
their
shifting
,
to
,
the
question
or
,
to
all
the
questions
posed
by
metaphysics
and
,
history
up
to
that
moment
,
and
,
all
the
questions
concerning
being
,
which
Nietzsche
,
in
a
given
moment
(
lets
say
:
clinical
)
was
forced
to
leave
as
problems
without
solution
,
or
,
as
Hooper
later
argued
:
"
a
locked
box
of
thinking
"
,
so
as
to
leave
without
further
questions
the
farmers
in
The
Area
,
and
,
the
families
of
The
Area
,
which
in
one
way
or
another
,
have
considered
that
place
,
as
an
evident
locus
of
order
and
,
not
,
as
a
locus
where
one
could
think
order
,
as
Hooper
wrote
in
the
2nd
Introduction
to
his
2nd
book
and
,
as
he
later
referred
,
in
that
poem
"
Portrait
"
or
in
that
"
Portrait
"
poem
where
he
couples
(
that
is
to
say
)
symptoms
extracted
from
Cartero
Cheval
,
and
,
at
the
same
time
,
from
the
great
master
Bernhardt
,
and
,
at
the
same
time
,
from
the
great
master
Williams
(
as
was
later
pointed
out
and
,
as
he
,
recognized
,
not
only
by
including
their
names
,
but
also
,
the
objective
banality
of
their
names
:
the
operation
of
showing
,
and
,
not
,
the
operation
of
hiding
,
as
is
usually
done
and
,
of
which
he
disapproves
,
inserting
the
word
Phänomenologie
,
concept
which
(
accroding
to
him
)
not
only
signals
the
causal
fact
of
everything
,
or
,
the
fact
in
and
of
itself
of
everything
,
but
also
,
which
demonstrates
the
neutral
language
,
and
the
neutral
realism
,
of
,
everything
which
he
,
has
been
placing
,
into
that
Portrait
"
of
my
own
crap
"
or
,
into
that
poem
"
of
my
proper
crap
"
,
where
,
in
the
end
,
everything
,
has
been
taken
,
to
,
a
maximum
verticality
,
and
,
a
maximum
repetition
)
according
to
the
case
,
and
,
according
to
the
reading
of
"
Aphorism
IV
"
where
Nietzsche
discusses
the
prices
which
,
for
him
,
cows
should
have
(
up
to
700
pounds
,
approx
»
163
marks
,
heavier
than
700
pounds
,
approx
»
285
marks
)
and
,
which
he
,
compares
,
with
a
man
who
daily
leaves
,
the
,
city
of
Lützen
,
and
travels
to
the
city
of
Potsdam
,
and
,
from
,
the
city
of
Potsdam
,
to
,
the
city
of
Lützen
,
according
to
the
time
of
day
,
and
,
according
to
,
the
obsessive
rhythm
of
that
man
and
,
of
those
cows
,
which
Nietzsche
couldn
'
t
buy
and
,
which
he
couldn
'
t
,
factually
,
solve
as
an
economic
production
of
the
problem
,
or
,
as
an
economic
problem
of
power
,
considering
that
he
who
owns
a
cow
(
as
Nietzsche
intuited
and
,
proved
)
possesses
a
determined
,
and
,
parceled
power
,
which
increases
or
,
decreases
,
according
to
the
corresponding
weight
and
,
the
correlative
profit
,
which
day
by
day
"
can
be
won
"
from
that
instrument
for
making
money
,
as
Nietzsche
intuited
and
,
proved
,
in
one
of
the
last
aphorisms
of
the
middle
of
his
life
)
and
,
how
Hooper
,
his
mind
,
now
forced
to
think
about
Nietzsche
,
and
,
to
symptomatically
make
fun
of
Nietzsche
,
proves
in
the
ranchers
and
"
greasy
"
farmers
of
The
Area
,
who
have
scarcely
heard
of
Nietzsche
and
,
all
the
more
,
don
'
t
want
to
hear
about
Nietzsche
,
while
Mrs
.
Hooper
(
his
wife
,
as
was
pointed
out
by
one
of
the
farmers
)
invites
them
to
drink
and
,
drink
a
beer
,
for
the
sake
of
that
poem
,
wherein
her
husband
,
speaks
,
once
and
for
all
,
of
"
the
beauty
of
The
Area
"
and
,
"
the
beauty
of
the
cows
,
without
which
the
farmers
and
other
people
of
The
Area
couldn
'
t
live
and
,
even
less
eat
"
at
which
point
Hooper
,
the
philosopher
,
and
"
the
one
forever
forced
to
milk
his
cows
"
glanced
to
his
right
,
adjusted
the
glass
behind
which
could
be
seen
the
photograph
of
Nietzsche
'
s
,
rather
:
cynical
face
,
and
didn
'
t
respond
.
