tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post6030043981122751003..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Lyric Opera's "Die Meistersinger" (2): Is Hans Sachs a Nihilist?Larry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-21222881421933761522013-02-27T18:13:17.903+00:002013-02-27T18:13:17.903+00:00I detect considerable influence from A Midsummer N...I detect considerable influence from A Midsummer Night's Dream. <br /><br />Theseus:<br /><br />Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,<br />Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend<br />More than cool reason ever comprehends.<br />The lunatic, the lover and the poet<br />Are of imagination all compact:<br />One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,<br />That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,<br />Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:<br />The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,<br />Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;<br />And as imagination bodies forth<br />The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen<br />Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing<br />A local habitation and a name. <br /><br />The root for all is Wahn.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.com