Three German Words
I learned three German Words (or rather concepts) yesterday. Actually I knew one of these before (the first one) but anyway here they are:
Weltschmerz
Schwarmerei
Welttrunkenheit
All from this essay by Cynthia Ozick. All of these are, she says, "Wagnerian emotions." Its a wonderful essay about how a German rabbi rescued her from romanticism. Lots of complicated things though.
3 comments:
too drunk to say anything reasonable :)
you sound reasonable. don't worry. :)
not so drunk anymore, but still can'tsay anything comprehensible.I don't understand this Ozick essay, having to be saved from romanticism employs a very srange notion of 1. rescuing & 2. romanticism....but these are just my 2 cent...
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