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[904W-{2/78}Modern: PW Vol. VI, p. 44]

[P. 44] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “Taken strictly, then, our world was new to the Jews; and all they undertook, to set them straight therein, consisted in the appropriation of our ancient heritage. This applies before all to our language – for it would be rude to refer to our money.” [904W-{2/78}Modern: PW Vol. VI, p. 44]

 

[905W-{2/78}Modern: PW Vol. VI, p. 47-48]

[P. 47] “Candidly, it would be difficult to anticipate much help for ourselves from the modern Jew-world’s victory. I have become acquainted with earnest and gifted individuals of Jewish descent who, in the endeavour to draw closer to their German fellow-citizens, have really devoted much labour to thoroughly understanding us Germans, our speech and history; but these have turned entirely away from the modern world-conquerings of their former co-religionists, nay, have even made quite serious friends with myself, for example. These few are thus excepted [P. 48] from the ‘Moderns,’ with whom the journalist and essayist alone find full acclamation.” [905W-{2/78}Modern: PW Vol. VI, p. 47-48]

 

[906W-{2/19/78}CD Vol. II, p. 29]

[P. 29] “Then he works, and tells me he has reached the ‘Hoellenrose’ (‘rose of hell’). ‘… who is Titurel?’ he asks me. I reflect. ‘Wotan,’ he says. ‘After his renunciation of the world he is granted salvation, the greatest of possessions is entrusted to his care, and now he is guarding it like a mortal god.’ – a lovely thought.” [906W-{2/19/78}CD Vol. II, p. 29]

 

[907W-{3/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 33]

[P. 33] {FEUER} “Comparison between Alberich and Klingsor; R. tells me that he once felt every sympathy for Alberich, who represents the ugly person’s longing for beauty. In Alberich the naivete of the non-Christian world, in Klingsor the peculiar quality which Christianity brought into the world; just like the Jesuits, he does not believe in goodness, and this is his strength but at the same time his downfall, for through the ages one good man does occasionally emerge!” [907W-{3/2/78}CD Vol. II, p. 33]

 

[908W-{3/24/78} CD Vol. II, p. 49]

[P. 49] {FEUER} “… R. says: ‘Creation is everything; fame is like an oyster shell. I find no pleasure in my things except in the moment of creation.” [908W-{3/24/78} CD Vol. II, p. 49]

 

[909W-{3/29/78} CD Vol. II, p. 52]

[P. 52] {SCHOP} {FEUER} “It does not say much for Schopenhauer that he did not pay more attention to my ‘Ring des Nibelungen.’ I know no other work in which the breaking of a will (and what a will, which delighted in the creation of a world!) is shown as being without the intervention of a higher grace, as it is in Wotan. (…) At supper he returns to this and says: ‘I am convinced Sch.

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