Structure
The seven songs are:
- Nacht (Night) - text by Carl Hauptmann
- Schilflied (Song amid the reeds) - Nikolaus Lenau
- Die Nachtigall (The nightingale) - Theodor Storm
- Traumgekrönt (Crowned in dream) - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Im Zimmer (Indoors) - Johanes Schlaf
- Liebesode (Ode to Love) - Otto Erich Hartleben
- Sommertage (Summer days) - Paul Hohenberg
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“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
“The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditional shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.”
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“A special feature of the structure of our book is the monstrous but perfectly organic part that eavesdropping plays in it.”
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