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Item #: SCP-XXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXX is to be kept in a small Standard Secure Locker.

Description: SCP-XXX is an anomalous 2013 Portuguese copy of the book "Dawn of Day" (German: Morgenröte | Portuguese: Aurora), originally written in 1881 by Prussian philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

At first sight, the book itself displays no anomalous property, being indistinguishable from other similar copies. However, anyone that has read a full paragraph of translated text from the book displays, after one week, [results of memetic effects]. This effect does not occur if only the sections not written originally by Nietzsche (e.g. the introduction by Brazilian author C███ M███████) are read.

anomalous thingy: basically, the affected individual will seek solitude and spend a period of time thinking. religious people will suffer great existential dread throughout all of it, and it will last longer. afterwards, the individual will display values, views and opinions consistent with those upheld by nietzsche (all of them, not only those presented in the book). they will then gift the book to someone else, having a preference towards religious people.

the "nietzschefied" individual will also die of the same weird illness that killed nietzsche

the shifted values will be all that nietzsche upheld but with something slightly off. " As researcher blabla described, "as if someone read all of nietzsche but misunderstood some of it"
the degree of misunderstanding varies

imply that maybe one of the affected might become nietzsche somehow [?]
some might display knowledge that only nietzsche himself could have possessed [?]

will of power: individual will try to do as he pleases, always. if unable, will react either with anger

can be undone by amnestics

maybe: effect varies based on previous knowledge. medics become obsessed with diagnosing his weird illness, philosophers become obsessed with his work, etcs

all believe he was the wisest and smartest person of all