Nietzsche's Own Monolithic Moment

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick sets Nietzsche's story of Zarathustra to a "Space Sci-Fi" background to best explain Nietzsche's OWN Monolithic Inspiration for writing Zarathustra in the first place, so here is some background:

"Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived while Nietzsche was writing The Gay Science; he made a small note, reading "6,000 feet beyond man and time," as evidence of this. More specifically, this note related to the concept of the eternal recurrence, which is, by Nietzsche's admission, the central idea of Zarathustra; this idea occurred to him by a "pyramidal block of stone" on the shores of Lake Silvaplana in the Upper Engadine, a high alpine region whose valley floor is at 6,000 ft."

Ten years later Strauss [or one of them] added some music, which was far more Wagner like than Strauss like, but for sure it fitted the bill perfectly.  Kubrick morphed all this "geological grandeur" into a "Monolith thing" that appears in the movie [with Strauss fanfare] to signify when things like apes might feel inclined to be inspired.

So without further ado we can zoom right in on the village of Surlej where he stayed in 1885 using GoogleEarth, and using the wonders of BillyWorld to make a short "sound and vision extravaganza".

GoogleEarth is viewing at 12,000 feet so is above the Monolith, meaning you will need to imagine how this Monolith looked to Nietzsche who was in the woods beside the lake, looking up some 3,000 feet.

EDIT - here is a better version of the music by Reiner and Chicago Symphony Orchestra