Inconsistencies in Nietzsche's writings don't become problematic till we start trying to integrate different concepts into a unified whole. The mere idea of applying reason to Nietzsche is inconsistent with Nietzsche. We might, if we wished to employ Nietzschean terms, simply claim that this is our Will to Power. Yet, this is a simple need to control, to make understandable, and so comfortable. Nietzsche likes to assume roles from his earlier works.
Buffoon is only one.
Let's look at a few, starting with the buffoon, and its inherent syllogism. A singer gives us a song, a knight, battle, a free spirit, an example. None, a systematic system. The fact that Nietzsche never tries to reconcile this patchwork into a cosmology makes the same forceful statement. There are truths here, but no Truth.