The writers described their nights reading Nietzsche as preludes to a budding relationship with the philosopher that continued to grow and develop over time. When he was eighteen years old, Eugene O’Neill was introduced to Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Liberty publisher and anarchist Benjamin Tucker at Tucker’s Manhattan bookshop. According to O’Neill,“Zarathustra …has influenced me more than any book I’ve ever read… . I’ve always possessed a copy since then and every year or so I reread it and am never disappointed, which is more than I can say of almost any other book.”
