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Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Fri Apr 17 11:08:43 CDT 2009



Robin schrieb:

> What really matters, in this family drama, is that somehow, we find
> our way home. We all know where home is, but we all know that "home"
> is slipping away.


Makes me think of the very end of Ernst Blochs magnum opus "Das Prinzip
Hoffnung" (The principle of Hope), where Home ("Heimat") gets defined as
"etwas, das allen in die Kindheit scheint und worin noch niemand war"
(p. 1628). Something that shines through everybody's childhood and where
nobody has been yet ...

Kai



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