The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
With my foot healed, I'm running again. Still not logging the miles I was, since I'm only going out three to four times a week. I did a trial 5K this morning and despite an annoying cough (pertussis—see below), I still managed to run it in 24:25. Now I'm hoping I can get it down to under 24:00 for the Fourth of July race I'm working toward.
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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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