The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
Irritating Editor is at it again. Irritating Editor just sent me back a completely mangled version of my text. Methinks Irritating Editor knew that he sent me completely manged version of my text, because Irritating Editor sent no cover email, not even "here it is."
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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.
—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope
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