Bataille begins his On Nietzsche by invoking Nietzsche as his companion: save “for a few exceptions, my company on earth is mostly Nietzsche...” The association (which could not but be one-sided) ends with an ellipsis stylistically underscoring Bataille’s claim, borrowed from Nietzsche as it is, and the personal reference Bataille claims is likewise taken on a life-loan, a life-line for Bataille, who writes, here catching a signature or a riff that runs through Nietzsche’s writings, particularly in evidence where Nietzsche himself ties his own loyalty to his own Schopenhauer as Educator (who writes as Nietzsche says as if for Nietzsche as a reader just and only because Schopenhauer writes for himself and alone).
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