Janice Rosen wrote:

>John Pohanka notes that Bryan Magee, in his book Aspects of Wagner,
>says "some people listening to Wagner's music are made to feel that
>they are in touch with their own personality for the first time.  The
>feeling of wholeness yet unboundedness - hence, its frequent comparison
>with a mystical or religious experience."

As much as I enjoy Wagner's music-dramas, that kind of experience is
rather frightening and perhaps analogous to the feeling that many persons
seem to receive from watching the _Matrix Reloaded_. One might also
wonder about all the pundits telling us of the mystery of this movie and
financial corporation while failing to tell us that Luke Skywalker first
done did it and then Joseph Campbell done spent his latter years analyzing
the Luke experience along his procrustean bed which he now had a new,
young audience for and a ready and eager learner in Bill Moyers, the
ever insightful.

Yoel
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