person
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche
also: Ницше
German philosopher (1844-1900), invoked by Pishchik at second hand (via his daughter Dashenka, who told him about it) as a garbled authority for the notion that one may print counterfeit money -- a comic misreading of Nietzsche used to characterize Pishchik as a man who repeats fashionable names without understanding them.
Reading notes
- The Cherry Orchard §516 Nietzsche... the philosopher
Pishchik's secondhand, garbled invocation of Nietzsche ("says in his writings that it's possible to make counterfeit money") is a comic misattribution rather than anything Nietzsche argued; Pishchik admits at \S518 that he has not read Nietzsche himself and knows of him only through his daughter Dashenka, which is the joke -- a famous name repeated by someone with no real access to the ideas behind it, immediately before Pishchik does, in fact, rummage through his own pockets for real money.