It is uncertain whether human beings were not, from the beginning, dancing to a secret tune of music. Always having heard music from afar and followed the rhythm. The ideas, quickly changing, modulations, alterations and exaltations, the flood of images, how quickly one dissolved into the next! Fugue and variation on just a few themes. In the end, was not all assembling and undoing merely the dance to powerful music that drifted over from unseen terraces and inspired to do the most daring deeds?
Botho Strauss, 'Der Fortführer', 2018 (trans. C.C.)
Botho Strauss, German writer, *1944