“What value does Wagner's art have? It was without form, without faith; nothing but panting rhetoric devoid of sacred intoxication and nobility, good only for hysterical ladies, hypocrites, and invalids... Now he was working on Christian themes, writing Parsifal. The hero had been defeated—the very man who promised to create new myths and hitch the leopard of reason to the Dionysian chariot!”
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