The Germans hate the Jewish religion less than their race, less their peculiar faith than their peculiar noses. - Moses Hess, Rome and Jerusalem The most assimilated and preeminent Westerners of Jewish lineage still preserved in their physical physiognomy, if in nothing else, the unmistakable and eternal stamp of Israel. And this inevitable fact has again and again infuriated the pagan peoples of the world. - Ludwig Lewisohn I found the reductio ad absurdum proof of the above sentiment in a blog comment posted by an Internet beauty queen: Plenty of people object to Jewish looks/appearance, not just WNs…Jews tend to be very physically ugly. Actually, the vast majority of Jews aren’t just ugly, many are FRIGHTENINGLY UGLY, so much so that most normal and healthy people of all racial/ethnic backgrounds are immediately repulsed or even instinctively scared (women and children, mostly) of them and as such avoid contact with them. Full-blooded Jews, especially unmixed Ashkenazim, are quite
"Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels."
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that you quoted this passage.
You may know Alexander Isaievitch Solzhenitsyn wrote a great number of volumes on the bolshevik revolution entitled the "red wheel" where the wheel i.e. the machine is in fact seen as crushing men, and spirit. In Ezekiel's vision everything is being reversed. Spirit dominates matter. In fact this reminds me of a little known text by Vassili Grossman, one he wrote after having contemplated the famous work by Raphael (http://www.skd-dresden.de/media/300_sixtina.jpg) before it being sent back to Germany in 1955.
If you read french:
"Un récit de 1955, La Madone Sixtine, livre une clé pour l'oeuvre : le tableau de Raphaël, tant aimé par Dostoïevski, fut exposé à Moscou avant d'être restitué à Dresde. Staline inspecte le tableau en caressant ses moustaches. Grossman à son tour s'approche du tableau et voit la jeune Madone au regard si triste, l'enfant si grave, il aperçoit « la force d'esprit qui se matérialise », une énergie qui se fait chair et qui inverse la découverte d'Einstein, il voit Treblinka, Kolyma, toute son oeuvre future."