eternally yours...

Quick passage of Deleuze in Nietzsche & Philosophy, page 187:

"The eternal return 'is the closest approximation of being and becoming', it affirms the one of the other; a second affirmation is still necessary in order to bring about this approximation. This is why the eternal return is itself a wedding ring. This is why the Dinoysian universe, the eternal cycle, is a wedding ring, a wedding mirror which awaits the soul (anima) capable of admiring itself there, but also of reflecting it in admiring itself. This is why Dionysus wants a fiancee: 'Is it me, me that you want? The whole of me?' (Here again it will be noticed that, depending on the point at which one is placed, the wedding changes sense or partners. For, according to the constituted eternal return, Zarathustra himself appears as the fiance and eternity as the woman loved. But according to the constitution of the eternal return Dionysus is the first affirmation, becoming and being, more precisely the becoming which is only being as the object of a second affirmation; Ariadne is this second affirmation, Ariadne is the fiancee, the loving feminine power)."

188: "But Dionysus teaches Ariadne his secret: the true labyrinth is Dionysus himself, the true thread is the thread of affirmation. 'I am your labyrinth.'" Cute.