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It is Nietzsche, living in a boardinghouse in Turin, and on the verge of madness. Only hours before the authorities come to take him away, he receives a letter explaining that Schopenhauer is not really dead.

Thus he learns from a reliable source that years before, his great
predecessor circulated the story of his own demise, so that he might live out his remaining years in anonymity and peace.
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