Is life fundamentally tragic?
>>24116449Yes, listen to Tristan und Isolde.
>>24116451https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGF_hM6FRxA
Presumptuous are the vaunts, and vain the prideOf man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest,Unchanged, immortal, and supremely blest!With all my affluence, when my woes are weigh'd,Envy will own the purchase dearly paid.For eight slow-circling years, by tempests toss'd
It’s not just Tragic, it’s tragically BEAUTIFUL! How are you enjoying the work, anon?
the birth of tragedy is literary theory not about " life is tragedy". try actually reading it. it's like 100 pages.
nah. tragedy is a luxury for most people
>>24116508Intelligent design in action.
>>24116449
>>24116813Just God balancing out the inherent feline smugness
>>24116449Not at all. I have good health, I eat delicious food every day, and I love my wife. God takes care of the rest.
>>24116834That's great. Come back and post at the end of life's second act.
>>24116449yes, AND
>>24116479Try recalling that the literary theory is grounded in Greek pessimism
Tragedy + time = comedy.
>>24117220Time = comedy - tragedy
>>24116449As an ugly manlet I would have to say yes, yes it is.
That you would have to ask this at all means it is obviously not.
>>24116458Furtwängler was so poorly suited to this piece that it moves from conceptual longing to immediate pain
>>24118396(Tragedy+Time)/Comedy=1
>>24118844>moves from conceptual longing to immediate painThat's literally the plot.
>>24116449Tragedy suggests an elevated viewpoint; though one's take on what one calls 'life' may be tragic, life itself subsumes this and all such suggestions. Is life fundamentally biological? If so, the *insistence* is less than 200 yrs old. Is life fundamentally sacred, or divine? This can't obtain as a point of knowledge either (though it's been around millenia) as, fundamentally, it rests on faith-- just as the belief that life is 'tragic' must.That life is tragic is fundamentally an opinion. Ultimately, therefore, this:>>24116508
>>24118897Even when Tristan was getting stabbed I‘m pretty sure his main concern was still conceptual longing. Isolde skips right past any physical affliction altogether. (This still is clearly not what I meant)
