Thursday, March 10, 2016
Give Peace A Chance, Nietzsche!
"My 'fact,' my petit fait vrai, is that I no longer breathe easily when this music begins to affect me; that my foot soon resents it and rebels: my foot feels the need for rhythm, dance, march..." (664 Nietzsche Contra Wagner)
and
"Music a a means to clarify, strengthen, and lend inward dimension to the dramatic gesture and the actor's appeal to the senses..." (665 Nietzsche Contra Wagner)
I enjoyed the way Nietzsche talks about music and the effect on the physical body it can have. I thought of "Give Peace A Chance" because the song always gives me a physical reaction of feeling like I need to get up and move - or try to save the world - and Nietzsche's text discussed this sensation in a very beautiful way.
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