The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
Seems to me that the uptick on the stock market today has pretty much doomed any chance of passing the bailout. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It's hard to say—though I still think the risk of doing nothing vastly outweighs doing something and the window for doing something before the election is rapidly closing.
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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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