[AnAmericanMother]

It may be fascinating . . . so is studying pathology. But pathology warns us of impending disease and death . . . so does this specific German Weimar art.

I took German for ten years, lived in Bavaria, and read extensively in the literature between-the-wars. You can see the same soul-sickness in the writings of the period.

Don't care for Schoenberg. Like some Mahler, especially the Lieder -- "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" is outstanding, I have the old RCA recording with FiDi and Schwartzkopf.

[Borges]

The whole point is that in Art you render the unpleasant aesthetic and find catharsis through it. The best of Klimt and co. did that. As did Mahler and Weill in music and so forth.