Immersed in terror and beauty / a look at a work in progress [to assuage the guilt]; writing about Jiang Qing trying to find the lushest recording of Verklärte Nacht
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&&& 尼耙不恶野人,谓中有新力,言亦确凿不可移。盖文明之朕,固孕于蛮荒,野人其形,而隐曜即伏于内明如华,蛮野蕾,文明如实,蛮野如华,上征在是,希望亦在是。惟文化已止之古民不然:发展既央,隳败随起,况久席古宗祖之光荣,尝首出周围之下国,暮气之作,每不自知,自用而愚,污如死海。A translation by Shu-ying Tsau and Donald Holoch reads like this: Nietzsche was not hostile to primitives; his claim that they embody new forces is irrefutable. A savage wilderness incuba…
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