[830W-{7/2/72}CD Vol. I, p. 507]
[P. 507] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “Darwin is giving him pleasure, and he agrees with him that, in comparison with the old world, there is moral progress in the fact that animals are now accepted as part of it.” [830W-{7/2/72}CD Vol. I, p. 507]
[831W-{7/23/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[P. 515] {FEUER} “ ‘Music has no ending,’ he says. ‘It is like the genesis of things, it can always start again from the beginning, go over to the opposite, but it is never really complete.” [831W-{7/23/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[832W-{7/23/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[P. 515] “I am glad that I kept back Sieglinde’s theme of praise for Bruennhilde, to become as it were a hymn to heroes.’ “[832W-{7/23/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[833W-{7/24/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[P. 515] {FEUER} “So now after all I have set this whole poem to music from beginning to end; previously I never believed it, not only on account of the impossibility of performing it, but also my inability to remain so persistently in the right mood; but I did remain in it – right up to the last verse I was as moved by it as at the very first word.” [833W-{7/24/72}CD Vol. I, p. 515]
[834W-{6-8/72} Actors and Singers: PW Vol. V, p. 205]
[P. 205] {FEUER} “It can only be a question of what tasks we set our mimic artists for the practice of their art. (…) … soundness in this will only come to him through his gift of mimetic portrayal, guided and determined by the right example. By nature an imitative bent, it becomes a thing of higher art through learning to pass from imitation to interpretation. As bent-to-imitation it contents itself with the immediate appearances of daily life; here is its root, deprived of which the mimic spirit, as Stage-affectation, floats holdless through the miasms of our whole affected Culture. But to hold before this primal bent a picture of the Ideal of all realities, raised high above the common sense-life of the experiential world, and thus to point it to the interpretation of the never-seen and ne’er-experienced – is to give it the example … .” [834W-{6-8/72} Actors and Singers: PW Vol. V, p. 205]
[835W-{6-8/72} Actors and Singers: PW Vol. V, p. 215-216]
[P. 215] {FEUER} “If we abide by the view that the honour to which the mimetic art is elevable can only be conferred on it through a change in the model to be imitated, transferring it from the common experience of physical life to the sphere of an ideal intuition, we certainly may presume that with this transference the Mime himself will also enter into a new social condition.
{FEUER} The latter is quite primly defined by Ed. Devrient … when hedemands of the Mime the truly Republican virtue of self-denial.
{FEUER} At bottom this implies a notable extension of those qualities which
