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" Every civil war builds on illusions and fear
Even war between individuals; whatever bonds may exist between them
To recapitulate images from history: After the first
world war, exhaustion, victory, inability to
build a new order, growing dissolution, chaos Revanchism Economic depression Then the waiting
for Germany, the generalized war initiated by Germany
This dread waiting, 1938, 1939 When I was conceived
After the cold war another period of exhaustion, another victory Perhaps we are in the presence of generalized
civil war, internal division, hatred Should we prefer
the empire? As Dante did? Or Ezra Pound, Heidegger Or
for that matter Brecht? We love dissolution and chaos passionately,
I hear a voice say, I know whose It is not here that I shall say it
It is not easy There are no nations Pillars of fire precede
the returning, in human terms, lost son. "
― Göran Sonnevi , Mozart's Third Brain
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" What is is incomprehensible, comprehensible, nameless, possessed of all names,
visible it is invisible, invisible it is visible, unheard
I listen to it Present it is absent, absent
it is present In this excluded third term we are included;
what cannot exist we encompass, as the single most significant thing
In the cracks it is whole In the whole it is utterly fragmented
The silence sings Nobody hears the sound Almighty
it lacks power Only the absence of power prevails Dead, it lives
Living, it is dead Only what is is not
I touch your flesh . . . "
― Göran Sonnevi , Mozart's Third Brain
