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Sometimes, the Mead of Poetry works indirectly. An old rock ‘n’ roll song is stuck on repeat in my head, spinning unceasingly between my ears. Actually, it’s not even an entire song. It’s just a verse or a chorus or sometimes only a line or two. Someone else’s creative creation gets lodged in there, doing work on my mind that only I can hear.
How can city-dwelling Heathens bring back the old sense of wonder when gazing upwards? How can we reenchant the post-post-postmodern skies in this third decade of the 21st century?
Karl E.H. Seigfried considers fanaticism, critical thinking, and over-identification in modern political thought through the lens of Stravinsky’s experience of seeing Wagner’s “Parzifal” a century ago.
Weekend editor Eric O. Scott partakes in the New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Wagner Week” of opera streams, and loses himself in the dream of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
“Have I been understood? Dionysus against the Crucified!” —Nietzsche, final line of Ecce Homo
On Jan. 3, 1889, Nietzsche witnessed a horse being whipped in the streets of Turin, Italy. He embraced the horse and collapsed to the ground, and was subsequently accosted by two policemen.