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Gentle's campaign and Schtitt's waste-Wagnerianism

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the Coach was swept away with the athleto-Wagnerian implications of Gentle’s proposals for waste, this business of sending from yourself what you hope will not return

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The founding's grass-roots layer, and its philosophical seduction: Schtitt was among Gentle's "earliest sign-carrying faithful," "swept away with the athleto-Wagnerian implications of Gentle's proposals for waste, this business of sending from yourself what you hope will not return." Experialism named as a Wagnerian gesture — the expulsion of what you hope won't return — which is exactly what 062's émigré refutes (it always creeps back). Gentle's campaign drew the reactionary idealist by making waste-export a heroic metaphysics.

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