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Paris idylls with Helen, Faustus and the Meister daydream with Margareta, sailors daydream with Lorelei, and mature Hitler, as Meister of Masters of Death, daydreams with Margareta of Germany, while the Jews pray to Shulamith. Faustus’ and the Meister’s Margareta emblemize any fantasy with a beautiful lady; Hitler’s Margareta symbolizes the really real affair with the universal ideal of Grecian Beauty itself: Plato’s wondrous form. Margareta of the golden hair emblemizes Nazism’s sublime idyll with the glories of German Romanticism and Classicism. She is the majestic, yet dreadful Lady Beauty mirroring lovely-haired Helen, Lorelei, and ethereal Stefanie of Hitler’s Valkyrian fantasies and daydreams.
Similarly, when Lady Beauty promenades, her aura irradiates sublimity, and her gallant suitors perceive it: her sublime aura shrouds them in sublime daydreaming and idylls. Thus, young Hitler, perched in a window, daydreams with his eternal beloved, golden-haired Stefanie when she strolls through the Landstrasse in Linz,67 just as Trojans in the Wall and Argives in the plains perceive Helen of Troy’s abysmally beautiful face in her grand stroll, acutely grasping their idyll and fate. She bewilders. Thus, Paris has an idyll with Helen in their bedroom while the war ensues. Thus, Meister Hitler goes on daydreaming with Margareta of the Romantic Germanic past while genocide ensues. Thus, the Meister of Death goes on daydreaming of golden-haired Margareta in his house, while the Jews in the crematorium fields go on drinking black milk,
67 Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 15.
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