No longer equal to the prophetic role in which he has cast himself, Zarathustra takes his bow, exits stage left, and seeks refuge in solitary, deedless, meditative exile, where time and tide have a negligible impact and the lived present is emptied of any real existential content.
Telemachus (1892), the ascetic of that name answers the wakeup call of self-application, sent out by God to a confessed "deedless dreamer, lazying out of a life / Of self-suppression" (ll.