Pillar of Fire

I thought that I had a good idea on where I wanted to go with my project, but ole Niztzsche's overman was just not lining up with Conchis as a storyteller.  I'd like to think of myself as a careful reader, but I really missed a lot of the Norwegian wood story the first couple of times.  On the third or fourth reading, I decided to read into the names and places of everything and as a "storyteller" would take careful action in annunciation of their names.  Henrik didn't jump out, but worshiping at a dolmen at all the ole relics of the stone age did.  Every hero in a myth almost always has a maiden as a guide or lover at his side.  Henrik's loyal and faithful wife Ragna made me pause-Ragnarok jumped out at me. 
While telling the story, Conchis says that Henrik went to Seidevarre not to meditate but to hate.  Henrik had become a misanthrope and he married to avert or slow down his hate for fellow earthlings.  If our poor chap Nicholas would have been playing closer attention to the story instead of playing footsy with Julie, perhaps he would have caught the several references to "Pillar of Fire."  I wanted to hear Pale Fire for obvious reasons and so I missed it the first couple of times.  I don't think nor care if Conchis thought he was god and thus Julie and Nicholas were in the presence of god, but that's not the point.  Nicholas was always worried about the "trivial" things of life and Conchis even gives him the Buddhism term of lilas.  I can't be too hard on Nicholas because I would have been more interested in playing footsy as well.  Well maybe not because from the beginning I would have know that I was going through an initiation and would have played my part accordingly.