Start: But … forgive me, Fasch … what’s...

Start:

But … forgive me, Fasch … what’s the difference? Between the form and the content? Rather … how is it possible to write … formlessly? What is the difference, finally, between choices that lead to a destiny and a destiny prefigured by certain choices?

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This old world, Fasch, will be new again, and again, and so after us will come new forms we cannot imagine, because we do not yet need them to explain the world to ourselves. Which is, in the end, all they are meant for: not to hide what we are. But to remind us.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Itamar Moses, Bach at Leipzig, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. pp.86-87.

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