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failed to opportunely act and heed their wise counselors before the Holocaust.103
Whether as Margareta or Lorelei, Lady Beauty’s sublime gaze and song is terribly mesmerizing. It transfixes; it blinds reason. Not only does Lady Beauty infatuate Paris, King Priam, King Menelaus and binds by oath hundreds of former suitors, but also transfixes Gorgias, Propertius, and others, who in stupor, easily absolve Helen and justify the Trojan massacre as a worthy cause for Helen’s beauty’s sake. Thus, they fallaciously justify humanity’s sufferings endured for her sake in her woven song. Hitler’s relentless pursuit of his sublime, yet terrible ideological beauty 3⁄4 golden-haired Margareta 3⁄4 devastated Europe and the world, as much as Paris’ pursuit of lovely-haired Helen devastated Troy 3000 years earlier. The irrational, heedless pursuit of the sublime, divine beauties seen in Helen of Troy and in Margareta of Germany, the first, a material beauty, the second, an ideological beauty, opened up a chasm in humanity’s history whose dirges and death fugues became their most tragic song.
Tragic songs sung within the perennial weavings of Lady Beauty’s terrible gaze and her dreadful Wars, ever weaving in mise en abyme collapsing eras and places. What tragedies and crimes come to pass when men desire to possess Helen’s, Margareta’s, or Lorelei’s sublime and dreadful glories! They see but not heed, as the wise elders on the wall of Troy
103 Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 3-28.
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