Are you the monster you want to be?

[vulcanlogician]

As for your reading of Birth of Tragedy...  Well, it's a work that's open to interpretation. I didn't know that there could be an interpretation that was quite so far away from mine, I confess.

It's not my favorite work by him, tbh. When I finally read Birth of Tragedy, I'd already been spoilt by hid later and middle works. Birth of Tragedy seemed a little like child's play and I didn't devote as much attention to it as I did other works. The concept of the Dionysian is something that he developed more in his later works. I may be having trouble differentiating the earlier conception from what is presented in later works, like Beyond Good and Evil.