54. Eurythmy Performance

GA 277c/1921-10-30/p011 ·1921-10-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Whoever uses today's language, especially the language of civilization, must take into account, ladies and gentlemen, that on the one hand civilized language has already completely adapted itself to the conventional or to the worldly, and on the other hand it adapts itself to the reproduction of thought. On the one side, on the side of the conventional, as well as on the side of the reproduction of thought, language naturally develops towards the inartistic. Thought in itself is an element that kills art. All thought is inartistic. You want to pronounce the sentence as radically as possible.

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