“This “untimeliness” has nothing to do with the “intempestivity” of Nietzsche, which implies a denial of the present ⟳ and an affirmation of future values.”

“I do not know ⟳ if he wrote his own ⟳ script, but whoever did, his subsequent pep talk ⟳ was a masterpiece of intempestivity.”

““O dear Schultz, here we go again. Same old headline. Sperm Productions, that innocent company dragged yet again into another Schultz intempestivity. With Gayboy already in a state. Raging that the show ⟳ is giving the theatre such a bad name ⟳ that it could ruin business for years to come ⟳. And dear me this little news item will promptly blow ⟳ his hemorrhoids clean ⟳ out of his backside. Forgive ⟳ me Rebecca.””

“[... I]n general, there has been insufficient realization of the intempestivity of much theoretical debate ⟳ within the discipline.”

“Any talk ⟳ about the moment suggests that it really is the right moment to talk ⟳ about the right moment, that its time has come ⟳ — and explicit claims to untimeliness or intempestivity are, one might suspect ⟳, no more than a further twist ⟳ of this structure ⟳.”

“d) Gradualism. The system should avoid ⟳ certain inherent distortions to the generated processes of centralized structure ⟳, such as ritualism, intempestivity, bureaucracy, imposition of norms, etc.”

“Nietzsche seems an obvious guide ⟳ here. No philosopher in the tradition presents himself as more contrarian, indeed polemical; no one abandons himself more to the perils of what would normally pass ⟳ for contradiction and illogicality, intemperance and intempestivity or untimeliness; no one uses declamation so consistently as a strategy against platitude, value as a weapon against morality, irony and sarcasm in the service of rhetorical demystification, interpretation, and affirmation.”

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