1 in Speculations, ed. Herbert Read. Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., New York: 1924.
2 transl. R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Books, London: 1990.
3 This difference also manifests itself in another theme of both texts: both Hulme and Nietzsche
converge in a mutual concern with human sexuality as a critical nexus for the joining of philosophical thought
and aesthetic practice. Though they come at this from differing sides of the issue (Nietzsche favoring “manly
virtues” [71], erotic philosophy [92], and Greek orgies [120]; Hulme seeking a sexuality that is at once
accessible and intense and also pure of all perversion), issues of sexuality and gender emerge as overdetermined
interests in the works of both writers. Some brief examples: the centrality of effeminization as a metaphor for
devitalization and decay in Nietzsche; his extended courtship of “truth” as a woman (as in the first sentence of
Beyond Good and Evil); the odd centrality of sexuality in Hulme’s analytic programme, as he describes
a vague project of cataloguing of ideas “(I) in science;/ (II) in sex;/ (III) in poetry” (244).
