Auf Den Gipfeln Der Verzweiflung

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Imagine walking across a tightrope suspended high in the summer air above a bay flooded in the mauve glow of sunset, the music of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" surrounding you. Now imagine the tightrope is actually razor-wire, and gusts of wind challenge every tortuous step into sublime infinity. This is the paradox of emotions one feels when reading On the Heights of Despair , the paradigmatic cry of the tortured artist whose explosive intensity of passion is equaled only by the profundity of his despair.