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Die Hoffnung is ein Seil.
(Hope is a rope.) Angelus Silesius
'Forces of pressure pose and define a question. But it is the forces of aspiration which formulate and offer an answer. It is as though human beings - personalities and/or collectivities - who are burdened by the weight of necessities, found something like a rope to be a message, an announcement, a 'revelation', a gospel. Whether they believe this rope to have come from elsewhere, or whether they think it came from within themselves is of no consequence. In both cases it is a rope that they throw in the air, in other words, into space, into the clouds, into the sky. To the observer, it seems that there is nothing to keep it up, except for the impalpable and inconsistent worlds of fantasy, wanderings and absurdity. And yet this rope is anchored. It holds. And when humans grab hold of it and pull themselves, it takes the strain, it maintains its rigidity ... '
Henri Desroche, translated by Carol Martin-Sperry 1979, The Sociology of Hope, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
