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despotic beauty: one mingled with darkness, and woven with blood and flesh and, detestably, made praiseworthy or justifiable by collective daydreaming and blindness.
Paris, Priam, Menelaus and Hitler are the sadistic Masters of Death that brings forth the holocaust and the fall of Troy, and of Europe, collapsing time and space. Both epics, immeasurable in their catastrophe, are woven, in mise en abyme with the flesh and blood and ashes of their victims, those of innocent women, men, and children, and wise elders, who not only endured sadistic and brutal tyrannies and strife for Lady Beauty’s sake, but also suffered the obduracy and foolishness of their leaders not to let her timely depart. Because of Paris and Priam’s obstinacy to preserve what must not be preserved, they politically neglected Troy’s welfare, tyrannizing all in the name of fate and divine beauty. Once Lady Beauty’s abyss and chasm opens, it collapses Troy: its walls burn, as Europe’s collapses, barely escaping her infallible doom and demise. Helen and Margareta’s mesmerizing gaze transfixes, blinds, and lures humanity, in its aesthetic extremism, not to utopia, but to dystopia. She is the romantic ideal in whose bosom dwells the blossom of the sublime and the spear of sacrifice.
Hitler’s quest for the beautiful Romantic German ideals of the feminine, as represented in Goethe's Faust Margareta, and in Heine's golden-haired Lorelei, mirrors the abyss of Paris’ and Menelaus’ quest for the beautiful Argive Helen, stirring Achaeans and Trojans to war for her sake. In the end, catastrophe occurs: both Troy and the West fall and perish, luring, once more, in gaze and song, atrocious numbers
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