The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
It's been a busy week A couple of late days at school, lots of grading, lots of dissertation reading means: no time for my own work—and in two weeks I have to give a paper I haven't even started writing. Judi J., first grader and Spouse are headed out for an afternoon activity, so that will give me a couple of hours to write. Let's hope I can be productive.
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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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