Time 1958 book review

In 1958 Time magazine started off their Schlecta book review ...

"Friedrich Nietzsche was a pale, crabby hermit who sat in a cheap Swiss boarding house peering beyond good and evil and demanding, at the top of his apocalyptic voice, the rearing of a daemonically driven breed of superman. Just when the world began to get wind of his prophetic fulminations, he went mad. For the last tragic eleven years of his life, he was a myth - and so he has remained."


Here is what Jacques Barzun had to say about that, back in his day ...

"More dull error could not be compressed into so few words - ..."

" ... what we want to know first is the meaning of 'to sit in a cheap Swiss boarding house peering beyond good and evil.' All one is sure of is that the ridicule would persist regardless of the facts: if Nietzsche had lived in an expensive hotel, the knowledge would come out as 'peering at good and evil between the potted palms of a garish palace."


It is all related ...
What is doing the work here in the Time article's argument?
That is the question pointed out by Barzun.