The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises: A New Day
Sarah Palin makes the ceremonial puck drop at a Flyers game and the fans let her have it. (Note the Obama-Biden signs in the crowd behind her.) The whole thing is rather surreal.
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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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