
Birth of Tragedy #3: 4-7 ("Objective" v/s "Subjective" Art)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Dionycian and the Apollynian
Art approaches as a saving sorceress. Expert at healing, she alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live. These are the sublime as the artistic taming of the horrible, and the comic as the artistic discharge of the nausea of absurdity. The satyr chorus of the ditheram is the saving deed of greek art. And i feel that within these first seven sections, it's not as if he's necessarily telling a chronological story as to how the apollinian and dionycian historically and chronologically strengthen and enhance one another. It's more like a series of vinettes of like he
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