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We'll not see any more Romeos and Juliets, or Tristans and Isoldes for the sad but simple reason that this love has been reduced to sex. With this reduction the other aspects of love beside the erotic are also lost (perhaps that's why 'love' has become nought but a four-letter word ...).

Moreover, since Love partakes of the Divine, reducing it means reducing the Divine in our lives which sadly also means that we lose our ability to discern the Divine in Great Art, be it music, be it paintings, sculpture, poetry. One can however learn to or re-learn to discern the Divine, in tiny steps ...

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This was terrific. Thank you!

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

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An excellent read sir !

We will never see Art reach the pinnacles it once did in the Rococo era.

I firmly believe that there is no human alive on this planet today who could create a piece of Sculpture like "Release from Deception" - Francesco Queirolo (1759)

Seven years in the making and all sculpted from one single marble block.

I doubt even an AI controlled 3D marble sculpting machine could approach anything similiar.

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Incredible piece I agree, makes you doubt these people were human. There's a contemporary sculptor - Jacapo Cardillo - who makes the most astonishingly lifelike marble pieces, but they are too ugly for my tastes.

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General George Patton would agree with most of this.

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Good you’ve touched on the Apollo/Dionysis duo in The Birth of Tragedy. A lot of people get it wrong and see the Apollonian as distinct from, instead of born-out-of, his opposite. Apollo was light, airy, mask-like, as a synthesis of the darkness and an overcoming of it, not exactly as its direct opposite. I overlooked The Birth of Tragedy for a long time because the prose isn’t as exciting, but it’s a very key work to understanding Nietzsche

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I read Genealogy first, then BoT second, and I agree that its one of the keys to unlocking his aesthetics. The Apollonian itself I think is poorly understood compared to the Dionysian, and gets too easily equated with rationalism or something of the like. Paglia is a good reader of Nietzsche

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Say: "Heart is a black stallion,

evil as midnight. His eyes

glint fire, his hooves can murder.

He thunders across the world."

Say & say. Meanwhile the heart

spurts out its fury, embers

to cold ash, calmly nibbles

gray grass in a gray meadow.

- Frederick Eckman, "Hurry, Hurry"

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Oh how I long to see my friends shake free of the apathy of our time

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Fire consumes, but it also reanimates. There are trees who cannot loose their seeds without the cleansing force of fire. In cases were fire does not all consume, it may heal and renew, as it does in life.

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Well said.

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Great read. Thankyou!

It seems that some people believe that no one is creating great art anymore.

Is that just because they can't see it or hear it because of the crushing volume of dirt that one must sift through to find a precious stone?

Who is the judge of genius anyway? Is the controlled projection of genius to the masses been genuine or a psy-op or both?

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