Moondog - "Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum"

"...Wagner's art is sick. The problem he presents on the stage--all of them problems o fhysterics--the convulsive nature of his affects, his over excited sensibility, his taste that required ever stronger spices, his instability which he dressed up as principles..." (Section 5, 8th paragraph, "The Case of Wagner")

"An instinct is weakened when it realizes itself: for by rationalizing itself it weakens itself." (Postscript, 3rd paragraph, "The Case of Wagner")



If the problem is over excitement, the need for stronger spices in order to be tasteful at all, then let us return to the simpler, to allow our pallet to relax with simple tastes. But our recipe cannot be over thought, it should merely manifest our hungers as they are. 'Ostrich Feathers Played on Drum" is only itself, claiming and thinking it is nothing else than it is.