The obvious read of "The Pale Criminal," the sixth chapter in part one of Thus Spoke Zarathustra , i

The obvious read of "The Pale Criminal," the sixth chapter in part one of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is that the criminal really wanted to kill to feel alive. He did the robbery so it wouldn't seem like he was just abjectly killing, but the killing was what he wanted to do. 

This made my brain suffer. It doesn't like to consider a positive valence for killing.