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of Death. Raped by or having eloped with Paris, Priam neglects to return Lady Beauty, dismisses wise advice, and trusts fate, driving King Menelaus to war to retrieve her. Raped by Jewish usury and Jewish internationalism,71 Lady Beauty departs Germany driving Hitler to war to recover her. In Troy, she weaves the tensions of Achaeans and Trojans suffered for her sake; in Auschwitz, she weaves the inspired writings of the Meister of Death, just as Stephanie weaves Hitler’s romantic poems. In this dance of death, Trojans pour libations to drench the grounds,72 while Auschwitz prisoners drink their own black milk, as if it was their own libation. In Troy, they dig graves and mounds on the ground; in Auschwitz, they go on digging graves on the air, so they won’t lie too cramped, while they are made to dance with death and sing along
3⁄4 Songs as death fugues 3⁄4
Helen’s terrible sublime eternal feminine draws her gallant suitors and future poets on high to blinding heights. She overwhelms. She infatuates. She blinds reason. Book 24 explicitly sings of the anger of Hera and Athena, both insulted by Paris, for having “favored her [Aphrodite]” as the one “who supplied the lust that led to disaster:”73 lust as ‘blindness’ or ‘infatuation’ for which Troy is destined to fall. Yet, beauty, says Priam, is not to blame; the Gods are to blame. In similar post-
71 Hitler, Adolf and Johnson, Alvin. Mein Kampf, Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. This appears almost in every chapter of Hitler’s text. See also Eberhard Jäckel. Hitler’s World View: a blue print for power. Wesleyan University, 1972. 100 ff.
72 Il., 7, 577.
73 Il., 24.24-30.
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