A culture of language, a language of culture: Nietzsche's mnemonics in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians

In On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche suggested that the most effective mnemonic, that is, a way to remember something, for example, a new meaning or even a whole language, is when what must be remembered "does not stop hurting". Is then a good teacher an effective torturer? J.M. Coetzee seems to argue in Waiting for the Barbarians that pain can sometimes function as a mnemonic tool used to teach others a language by means of which they would be able to know and communicate with their master, to use Nietzschean terms once again, and to "speak the truth". The language of the culture they are installed to, then, is one of violence. The culture of that language, as Coetzee seems to suggest, is that of the Western civilised world. It appears that the language J.M. Coetzee muses about in the novel is the same "open and simple speech" that Kipling referred to when he wrote on the white man's educative burden in the uncivilised world.