The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
I'm sitting in the coffee shop at the moment, trying not to listen to a couple breaking-up in the worst way—shouting, crying, etc. This is the second time in the last year that I've had this experience. Have coffee shops become, like the place to break-up? Do I just not get why people would choose to break-up so publicly in this way? Is it because doing it in public is safer and more final?
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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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