Re: DIE SCHERE #7: Notes

[Wahe <Wahe@aol.com>]

Günter wrote:

> First he inserts an anecdote illustrating another "something" which art may
>  be expected to be, namely politically correct. The Master is factually
>  precise here as he is wont to be in such matters: he does not, as it is
>  mostly done, merely quote that famous verdict of the Kaiser but he names
>  the when, the where and the why. To bash Wilhelm for his ideas as well as
>  for his taste and for his politics is very much politically correct in
>  Germany these days. EJ serenely grants him to be not quite wrong ("nicht
>  ohne Instinkt") in this particular instance and from his particular world
>  view as Der Kaiser of that arch-bourgeois society against which all
>  modernists rebelled.

I wonder whether you agree there is a grammatical uneaxactness  in:

>  Wenn Wilhelm II. bei der Einweihung des neuen Hannoverschen Rathauses
>  vor einem Hodler-Bilde sagte: »Die ganze Richtung paßt mir nicht«, so
>  entsprang sein Urteil eher dem Willen als der Anschauung.  _Sie_  war
>  weniger ästhetisch fundiert als politisch, und insofern nicht ohne
>  Instinkt.

_Sie_ is apparently meaning the remark of Wilhelm, but should then be _Es_
(=sein Urteil) - grammatically the reference is to _die ganze Richtung_.


Greetings


Walter
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