[957W-{1/23/79}CD Vol. II, p 258]
[P. 258] {FEUER} “I read ‘The Nibelung Myth’ and ‘Siegfried’s Tod’ and talk to R. about them. Later he tells me that he originally designed this more in the mode of antiquity; then, during his secluded life in Zurich, he became interested in Wotan’s downfall; in this work he was more a kind of Flying Dutchman.” [957W-{1/23/79}CD Vol. II, p 258]
[958W-{1/28/79}CD Vol. II, p. 261]
[P. 261] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Later a nice letter from E. Nietzsche brings the conversation around to her brother’s dismal book, and R. remarks that, when respect vanishes, everything else vanishes, too … . But our times have no feeling for greatness, they cannot recognize a great character. There can be no bond with it.’ “[958W-{1/28/79}CD Vol. II, p. 261]
[959W-{2/3/79}CD Vol. II, p. 265]
[P. 265] {FEUER} “But he works and says to me, ‘Do not expect too much from the meadow – it must of course be short, and it cannot express delight in nonexistence, as in ‘Tristan.’ “ [959W-{2/3/79}CD Vol. II, p. 265]
[960W-{3/22/79}CD Vol. II, p. 280-281]
[P. 280] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Yesterday, before we began [P. 281] to play cards, the vision of Nietzsche’s behavior rose once more in his mind. He said, ‘N. wrote his thoughts out of season, thus acknowledging that what he admires does not belong in our time but goes beyond it, and now he uses the fact that my enterprise is out of season to criticize it! Can one imagine anything worse than that?’ “[960W-{3/22/79}CD Vol. II, p. 280-281]
[961W-{3/23/79}CD Vol. II, p. 281]
[P. 281] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “R. relates to me the biography of the Zulu King, the killing of the cows when his mother died, so that the animals might know what it means to lose a mother, and he ends with the words: 'No animal is as cruel as a human being, it is only the human being who takes pleasure in tormenting; the cat playing with a mouse does not know what this means to the mouse, but a human being does know.’ “ [961W-{3/23/79}CD Vol. II, p. 281]
[962W-{4/79} Shall We Hope?: PW Vol. VI, p. 117]
[P. 117] {anti-FEUER/NIET} {SCHOP} “For an answer to the question whether we shall hope, in my sense, I certainly need my reader’s inclination to follow me through the mazes of our present life, with no too sanguine optimism: for him who here finds everything in order, Art does not exist, simply because he has no need of it. What higher guidance should he need, who founds his judgment of the things of this world on the comfortable theory of Constant Human Progress. Do or omit what he will, he is sure of always marching forward: if he sees high endeavours left resultless, in his eyes they were unserviceable to ‘constant progress’; for instance, if folk prefer to take their
