[594W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 211]
[P. 211] “… we must see before us a ‘fallen angel’ himself, whose fearful torment drives him to proclaim his wrath against Eternal Justice.” [594W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 211]
[595W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 212]
[P. 212] “With the opening of the allegro-ritornel his features kindle to a new, a horrible last hope – the hope of World’s-upheaval, in which he too must pass away.” [595W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 212]
[596W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 215]
[P. 215] “… his love for Senta displays itself at once in terror of the danger she herself incurs by reaching out a rescuing hand to him. It comes over him as a [P. 216] hideous crime, and in his passionate remonstrance against her sharing in his fate he becomes a human being through and through; whereas he hitherto had often given us but the grim impression of a ghost.” [596W-{1/53} Remarks on Performing ‘The Flying Dutchman’: PW Vol. III, p. 215]
[597W-{4/13/53}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 284]
[P. 284] {anti-FEUER; FEUER} “I have succeeded in viewing natural and historical phenomena with love and with total impartiality as regards their true essence, and I have noticed nothing amiss except for – lovelessness. – But even this lovelessness I was able to explain as an aberration, an aberration which must inevitably lead us away from our state of natural unawareness towards a knowledge of the uniquely beautiful necessity of love; to acquire this knowledge by active striving is the task of world history; but the stage on which this knowledge will one day act out its role is none other than the earth and nature herself, which is the seed-bed of all that will lead us to this blissful knowledge.” [597W-{4/13/53}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 284]
[598W-{4/13/53}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 284]
[P. 284] “ … it is precisely here that we recognize the glorious necessity of love, we call upon it and welcome each other with a force of love which would not be possible were it not for this painful recognition; and so, in this way, we acquire a [P. 285] strength of which natural man had no inkling, and this strength – increased to embrace the whole of humanity – will one day lay the foundations for a state on earth where no one need yearn for the other world (a world which will then have become wholly unnecessary), for they will be happy – to live and to love. For where is the man who yearns to escape from life when he is in love? – Well then! Now we suffer, now we must lose heart and go mad without any faith in the hereafter: I too believe in a here-after: -- I have just shown you this hereafter: though it lies beyond my life, it does not lie beyond the limits of all that I can feel, think, grasp and comprehend, for I believe in humanity and – have need of naught else!” [598W-{4/13/53}Letter to Franz Liszt: SLRW, p. 284]
