Vulgar words in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama (Page 1)

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Of what use can be the assertion that a certain progression of chords is acceptable and pleasing to the healthy ear (even with the usual addition that all who do not think so are blockheads), when some other person equally competent asserts the contrary?

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What is called "free-love" is pure sensuality, the bastard _Aphrodite Pandemos_.

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