'What if some day or night a demon were to steal after your loneliest loneliness and say to you that this life as you now live it you will have to live once more and innumerable times more.' In other words, our particular individual lives are lived over and over again in exact detail. In he suggested, 'Everything becomes and recurs eternally_ escape is impossible.' — Jack Cummins

I believe this (Nietzsches) quote is highly metaphorical. By reading your arguement I fall in the conception that your view on this quote is literal. I think in this quote Nietzsche argues that we must act as if we will live this life repeadetly forever thus we have to make it worthwhile. In the original quote the Nietzsche asks us either if we would damn the demon (because we are not happy with our 'fate') or consider him a saint (because we are happy with our 'fate'). And also whether we would want to live this life again and again repeadtly throughout eternity. Nietzsche suggest that our answer should be an ultimate 'YES'. I believe the moral in this story is that if we are not able to answer this question with a strong yes, we should reconsider our life and make some radical changes.


PS: I have just opened this account and this is my first post.
Please excuse my bad English ( as it is not my native language) and my misconceptions in the post.