Nietzsche, “On Rhythm”
“The magic of rhythm consists in a quite elementary symbolism by which the regular and the orderly imposes itself on our understanding as a higher realm, a life above and beyond this irregular life … The more excitable and natural a person is, the more rhythm acts upon him as a compulsion to repeat the rhythm and produces that ‘blind attunement prior to all judgment’; this compulsion is usually associated with pleasure, but it can tear at souls and overpower them so suddenly that it is more like a painful paroxysm.”
Holy shit, Nietzsche, where have you been all my life?
