grow ever clearer to me, that in the insights which had been opened up to me by my own art-doings there dwelt a wider meaning than is to be ascribed to a merely problematic seeming artistic individuality. Upon this path I have come to the view that the real question concerns an entire re-birth of Art, which we now know only as a shadow of its genuine self; since it has quite deserted actual Life, and is only to be discovered in a scanty stock of popular remains.” [802W-{7/71} Introduction to The Collected Works: PW Vol. I, p. xvii-xviii]
[803W-{7/25/71} CD Vol. I, p. 396]
[P. 396] {anti-FEUER} “Then he adds, ‘Yes, love up to the point of complete unionis just suffering, yearning.’ I: ‘And complete union achieved only in death – the whole of ‘Tristan’ is saying that; this is what I constantly feel, I feel myself as an obstacle which I long to burst through. And yet I want as an individual to be united with you in death – how can one explain this?’ R.: ‘Everything that is remains, what one already has persists, freed entirely from the conditions of its occurrence.’ “[803W-{7/25/71} CD Vol. I, p. 396]
[804W-{7/25/71} CD Vol. I, p. 396]
[P. 396] {anti-FEUER} “R.: ‘The word ‘eternal’ is a very fine one, for it really means ‘holy’: a great feeling is eternal, for it is free from the laws of change to which everything is subject: it has nothing to do with yesterday, today, or tomorrow. Hell begins with arithmetic.’ “[804W-{7/25/71} CD Vol. I, p. 396]
[805W-{9/1/71} CD Vol. I, p. 407]
[P. 407] {FEUER} “ ‘An improviser such as an actor must belong entirely to the present moment, never think of what is to come, indeed not even know it, as it were. The peculiar thing about me as an artist, for instance, is that I look on each detail as an entirety and never say to myself, ‘Since this or that will follow, you must do such and such, modulate like this or like that.’ I think, ‘Something will turn up.’ Otherwise I would be lost; and yet I know I am unconsciously obeying a plan." [805W-{9/1/71} CD Vol. I, p. 407]
[806W-{9/4/71} CD Vol. I, p. 408]
[P. 408] {FEUER} “Toward noon R. calls me and plays me his ‘inspiration’ – Bruennhilde’s reception by the vassals; her appearance will be characterized by the motive we heard when she becomes frightened of Siegfried, ‘when the other thing overcomes her,’ as R. says.” [806W-{9/4/71} CD Vol. I, p. 408]
[807W-{9/6/71} CD Vol. I, p. 410]
[P. 410] {FEUER} “We talk of the love between Siegfried and Bruennhilde, which achieves no universal deed of redemption, produces no Fidi [Wagner’s son Siegfried]; Goetterdaemmerung is
