incense-odour

Updated: May 14, 2025

All on a sudden however, Zarathustra's ear was frightened: for the cave which had hitherto been full of noise and laughter, became all at once still as death; his nose, however, smelt a sweet-scented vapour and incense-odour, as if from burning pine-cones. "What happeneth? What are they about?" he asked himself, and stole up to the entrance, that he might be able unobserved to see his guests.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra : A book for all and none