of the true relation. What in the one work could only come to rapid utterance at the climax, in the other becomes an entire Content, of infinite variety; and this it was, that attracted me to treat the stuff at just that time, namely as a supplementary Act of the great Nibelungen-myth, a mythos compassing the whole relations of a world.” [811W-{12/71} Epilogue to The Nibelung’s Ring PW Vol. III, p. 268-269]
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[P. 456] {FEUER} “ ‘A human being should not feel pity,’ R. says. ‘Nature doesn’t want it; he should be as cruel as the animals; pity has no place in the world.’ “ [812W-{2/8/72}CD Vol. I, p. 456]
[813W-{2/11/72}CD Vol. I, p. 457]
[P. 457] {anti-FEUER} {SCHOP} “ … the apotheosis of Isolde is immortality.”[813W-{2/11/72}CD Vol. I, p. 457]
[814W-{2/11/72}CD Vol. I, p. 457]
[P. 457] “Of ‘Opera and Drama,’ which he is correcting, he says: ‘I know what Nietzsche didn’t like in it – it is the same thing which Kossak took up and which set Schopenhauer against me: what I said about words. At the time I didn’t dare to say that it was music which produced drama, although inside myself I knew it.’ “ [814W-{2/11/72}CD Vol. I, p. 457]
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[P. 460] “ … ‘Siegfried is all action – though he does recognize the fate which he has taken on himself.’ “ [815W-{2/21/72}CD Vol. I, p. 460]
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[P. 460] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “R. is well and works; at lunch we talk about the Rhinemaidens’ scene: he shows me how the maidens come very close to Siegfried, then dive down again, consigning him amid laughter and rejoicing to his downfall, with all the childlike cruelty of Nature, which only indicates motives and indifferently sacrifices the individual – thus, in fact, demonstrating a supreme wisdom which is only transcended by the wisdom of the saint.” [816W-{2/23/72} CD Vol. I, p. 460]
[817W-{1-3/72} Introduction to ‘Art and Revolution,’ ‘The Artwork of the Future,’ and ‘Opera and Drama’: PW Vol. I, p. 23]
[P. 23] {FEUER} “Thomas Carlyle, in his ‘History of Frederick the Great,’ characterises the outbreak of the French Revolution as the First Act of the ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ of a nation ‘sunk into torpor, abeyance, and dry-rot, and admonishes his readers in the following words: --
{FEUER} ‘There is the next mile-stone for you, in the History of Mankind! That universal Burning-up, as in hell-fire, of Human Shams. The oath of twenty-five Million men, which has since
