Reading Nietzsche

Nietzsche purposely makes his books difficult to understand because he believes reading is an art, something more than a leisurely activity. He writes, "one thing is necessary above all of one is to practice reading as an art in this way, something that has been unlearned most thoroughly nowadays-and therefore it will be some time before my writings are "readable"--something for which one has almost to be a cow and in any case not a "modern man": rumination" (23). A synonym for rumination is meditation. Meditation is something I want to do, but am not able to do because of the countless tasks I am faced with in a mundane world. Personally, I enjoy reading books that read themselves. Thus far in Core, only the White Castle has fallen in this category. Plato and Nietzsche have not yet become fully "readable" to me because rumination is not something that comes easily in a grey court dorm room or the library. Perhaps I have not practiced enough, and my ability to understand these works will come with time, but presently I am having difficulty, not in understand what Nietzsche writes, but why Nietzsche writes what he does.