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The sick brain plays evil tricks on its inhabiting spirit.
Travelling in Germany and Austria this summer, I twice heard Hans Sachs's closing monologue from "Die Meistersinger" — "Honor your German masters" — and both times I felt a chill at the insinuating line "Evil tricks threaten us".
Sachs's ever-problematic closing monologue, in which he warns of "evil tricks" that threaten the German body politic, is addressed to the audience, and Volle defuses its menace by adopting a plaintive, pleading manner: he is not a proto-Fascist demagogue, as in Katharina Wagner's 2007 production at Bayreuth, but a distressed prophet warning of a dark future.
My parents divorced when I was fourteen and I used to play evil tricks on my father for the years he was dating and I still lived at home.
Had we been kept in the dark about that magic trick, either by not knowing if the murder would succeed or by shielding us from the crime, with a simple trickle of blood or reaction shots from the crowd, our mind could have played its own evil tricks.
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