
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Idilic Tendency of the Opera
opera is a combination of music image and words it is a word and tone rhetoric of the passions right. He charges that this is these are basically inartistic men who do not sense the deness he cannot behold the apillanean visions there's then a section we'll kind of gloss over where nicha talks about he talks about the idyllic tendency of the opera. This is a belief in a primitive age of man when quote he lay close to the heart of nature and owing to this naturalness had it once attained the ideal of mankind in paradisiacal goodness and artistry.
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