The end of the introduction to this work refers to feeling the "tension of the bow" and "the arrow and the task.
The end of the introduction to this work refers to feeling the "tension of the bow" and "the arrow and the task." This work's famous concluding section was originally a letter to Heinrich von Stein and bears similarities to "To the Mistral: a Dancing Song," also by this work's author. Another section of the work answers the titular question with a Lamarckian evolutionary account of the aristocratic class, while yet another section contrasts "philosophical laborers" with actual philosophers. The latter two sections are the aphoristic "We Scholars," and "What is Noble" while the first is "From the High Mountains" which is titled as an "aftersong."  Beginning with the question "Supposing truth is a woman - what then?", FTP, identify this precursor to Genealogy of Morals, a work of Friedrich Nietzsche's about living in the titular state.
The end of the introduction to this work refers to feeling the "tension of the bow" and "the arrow and the task.
{Beyond Good and Evil} or {Jenseits von Gut und Bose}