--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My profession has been literary criticism. It is ignorant, for example, to separate Blake's art from his poetry, but it is not profoundly ignorant. Each must be able to stand on its own---and it does. It is better if you see it as a unified whole, and, I'm sure that's true of Wagner. However, in my opinion, Wagner's librettos don't stand on their own. I am not alone in that opinion, and, moreover, I see no reason to continue to argue about it. I have no wish to convince you of this.
Angela. I've said in two posts now, including the post you're responding to, that Wagner's librettos don't stand on their own (in the other post I used those *precise words*--and I know you read that post too, because you responded to it). In the post you're responding to now, I said: "Nobody 'likes Wagner's librettos.' To single them out for critical evaluation in isolation from the music is itself a sign of profound ignorance." Now you're saying that's what *you* think, but you see no reason to argue with me about it and have no desire to convince me of it, when *I said it before you did*, TWICE?? > I also don't care whether you ever see any similarities between German fascism and the TMO. And on this point, I said: "What seems difficult for you to see is that the similarities, such as they may be, are *irrelevant*." The similarities aren't hard to see. It's their relevance that's at issue.
