Clockwise and Willing Backward

On a clock, there are two circular routes between any two numbers--clockwise or counterclockwise, i. e. 'forward' or 'backward', respectively, e. g. from 12 to 8 via 4, or via 10. In those terms, what Nietzsche refers to as 'willing backward' is actually 'willing forward', for, on his concept of Eternal Recurrence, the path to an event in the past is via the recurrence, subsequent to the present moment, of the entire sequence of events that leads to that event. Nevertheless, interpretations of him as nostalgic for the pre-Socratic era entail that he espouses the undoing of what has transpired since then, i. e. as espousing a turning 'back' of the clock. However, there is no textual support for such reactionary readings of either Eternal Recurrence or 'willing backward', thereby exposing those readings as reflective of their authors, not of Nietzsche, and, instead, exemplifying what he calls 'ressentiment'.