Philosophizing with a hammer

With creative hands they reach towards the future, and everything that is or has existed becomes their means, their tool, their hammer, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, presaging Twilight of the Idols, or How to Philosophize with a Hammer two years later.

Here for once to ask questions with a hammer and, perhaps, to hear in response that famous hollow sound which speaks of swollen innards — what a delight...
I have a good friend who philosophizes with hammers and other tools, and loves dogs, and is a lot more fun than old Fritz...