FoghornBellows
12-02-2009, 10:34 AM
"All that he does seems to him, it is true, extraordinarly new, but also, because of the incredible spate of new things, extraordinarly amateurish, indeed scarcely tolerable, incapable of becoming history, breaking short the chain of the generations, cutting off for the first time at its most profound source the music of the world, which before him could at least be divined. Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself."
"Extraordinarily amateurish, indeed scarcely tolerable, incapable of becoming history." Lacking skill and professionalism. There are so many new things simultaneously brought into existence that his contribution seems to him insignificant and unworthy.
"Breaking short the chain of the generations." Complete halt of reproduction. The will to have children would have to vanish. It would have to be seen as no longer functional, or a meaningless activity on even the instinctive level.
"Cutting off for the first time at its most profound source the music of the world." Silence. There is no longer a harmony man orders his movements to. In other words, there is no longer any guiding force for man's actions.
Paradoxically, though his contribution is personally considered insignificant and unworthy, "incapable of becoming history," it will replace the future by theft of all assumed meaning in man, all order man ascribed to the world, and all of his prejudices and fancies.
That's my best shot at making sense out of this aphorism. Will some of you please offer your two cents?
"Extraordinarily amateurish, indeed scarcely tolerable, incapable of becoming history." Lacking skill and professionalism. There are so many new things simultaneously brought into existence that his contribution seems to him insignificant and unworthy.
"Breaking short the chain of the generations." Complete halt of reproduction. The will to have children would have to vanish. It would have to be seen as no longer functional, or a meaningless activity on even the instinctive level.
"Cutting off for the first time at its most profound source the music of the world." Silence. There is no longer a harmony man orders his movements to. In other words, there is no longer any guiding force for man's actions.
Paradoxically, though his contribution is personally considered insignificant and unworthy, "incapable of becoming history," it will replace the future by theft of all assumed meaning in man, all order man ascribed to the world, and all of his prejudices and fancies.
That's my best shot at making sense out of this aphorism. Will some of you please offer your two cents?