NP but Walter Benjamin's Theses on History

[Thomas Eckhardt]

The long quote is from VL, 266-267.

As regards the Kabbalistic imagery, see also Leonard Cohen: "There is a 
crack in everything / That's how the light gets in."

Am 11.12.2019 um 23:03 schrieb Thomas Eckhardt:
> The source for the imagery is the Kabbalah -- the broken vessels of 
> creation, a smashed, broken, spilled world. See Gershom Sholem.