firstly for the Jew as much as ceasing to be Jew. And this had Boerne done. (…) Without once looking back, take ye your part in this regenerative work of deliverance through self-annulment (selbstvernictenden); then are we one and Un-dissevered! But bethink ye, that only one thing can redeem you from the burden of your curse: the redemption of Ahasuerus – Going under!” [461W-{8/50} Judaism InMusic: PW Vol. III, p. 100]
[462W-{9/9/50} Letter to Herr Von Zigesar: CWL; P. 101]
[P. 101] “ … in opera music wrongly has been made the aim, while the drama was merely a means for the display of the music. Music, on the contrary, should do no more than contribute its full share towards making the drama clearly and quickly comprehensible at every moment. While listening to a good – that is, rational – opera, people should, so to speak, not think of the music at all, but only feel it in an unconscious manner, while their fullest sympathy should be wholly occupied by the action represented.” [462W-{9/9/50} Letter to Herr Von Zigesar: CWL; P. 101]
[463W-{10/22/50}Letter to Theodore Uhlig: SLRW, p. 219-220]
[P. 219] {FEUER} “Look, just as we need a water-cure to heal our bodies, so weneed a fire-cure in order to remedy (i.e., destroy) the cause of our illness – a cause that is all around us. Shall we return then to a state of nature, shall we reacquire the human animal’s ability to live to be 200 years old? God forbid! Man is a social, all-powerful being only through culture. Let us not forget that culture alone grants us the power to enjoy life to the full as only mankind can enjoy it. True enjoyment, however, consists in distilling a specific concentrate out of the general fund of things worth enjoying, so that we can assimilate in an instant what time and the elements have to offer us in widely divergent context. Who, at the moment of enjoyment, thinks of the [P. 220] permanence of that enjoyment? If we think of permanence, the enjoyment itself immediately fades.” [463W-{10/22/50}Letter to Theodore Uhlig: SLRW, p. 219-220]
[464W-{11/25/50}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 220-221]
[P. 220] {FEUER} “My essay on the nature of opera, the final fruits of my deliberations, has assumed greater dimensions than I had first supposed: but if I wish to demonstrate that music (as a woman) must necessarily be impregnated by a poet (as a man), then I must ensure that this glorious woman is not abandoned to the first passing libertine, but that she is made pregnant only by the man who yearns for womankind with [P. 221] true, irresistible love.” [464W-{11/25/50}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 220-221]
