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Spengler talks about Faustian man's prime symbol being "infinite space." Where can I read more discussions about this? And what person do you think got the closest to embodying that ideal? To me, it's Beethoven. His music has infinite depth.

>> No.16820629

>>16820097
I also read decline of the west recently and would like more discussion on any part of it. Beethoven, Bach, or Wagner all hit that feeling for me. I think he even mentions that the faustian man's image can't be captured in painting or sculpture like the old ages, but through music they achieve this. So artistically, it'd have to be something musical.

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The bird opens its beak and sings its note
And then the beak comes together again in Silence.
So Nature and the Living meet together in Void.
Like the closing of the bird's beak
After its song.
Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun,
And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like
The lights of an idiot, all is without mind!
To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.

Chuang Tzu by way of Thomas Merton.