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to death, in blazing fire and in horrid holocaust for Lady Beauty’s lovely sake, amidst the drinking of black milk in morning, evening, and night, amidst the pouring of libations, amidst the lamentations and dirges, amidst black wails and infinite
3⁄4 death fugues 3⁄4
These tragic songs are sung within the perennial weavings of Lady Beauty’s terrible gaze and her dreadful Wars, ever woven in mise en abyme. What tragedies and horrors transpire when men desire to possess the eternal feminine in Helen’s, Margareta’s, or Lorelei’s sublime, yet dreadful charms! They see, but not see, lest they do not heed, as the wise elders on the wall saw, and King Priam did not heed. They see, but not see. In stupor they freeze. Possessed by her terrible, yet sublime beauty, they pursue her lovely persona or sublime ideology bringing forth her very antithesis: war and catastrophe.79 Thus they rarely seek, and readily ignore, the beauty that dwells within the human breast, and not without. Outside, she shall go on dazzling, and terrifying humanity with her dual nature and gaze.
Not only is Hitler dazzled by the beauty and genius of German Romanticism conjugated in Goethe’s Margareta and Heine’s Lorelei, but also by Grecian Classicism’s beauty as
79 This paradox of how the pursuit of ideal beauty can lead to its opposite 3⁄4 war 3⁄4 is brilliantly personified and emblemized in Greek myth in the love affair between Aphrodite and Ares.
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