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history, one conceivable as an ordered narrative, was transformed, in Walter Benjamin’s vision, into tragic allegory:

The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair as to awaken the
Feb 22, 2025 05:07AM
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

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history, one conceivable as an ordered narrative, was transformed, in Walter Benjamin’s vision, into tragic allegory:

The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair as to awaken the
Feb 22, 2025 05:07AM
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century


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