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"In the Golleschau quarry, stone-carriers were forced to haul huge blocks of limestone endlessly, from one mound to another and back again. During the torture, they carried their lives in their hands. The insane task was not futile only in the sense that faith is not futile

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[ex_cupboard800]

thank you for sharing this.

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you should seriously try to obtain a copy of that book. it's the most beautiful writing I think I've ever come across. but, yes. only in the sense that faith is not futile.

[kaleid]

that is of my favorite books. i was reading it the first time my girlfriend saw me; it is her favorite book, as well.

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i'm happy to hear that. somehow it feels like a book which is so privately my own, but at the same time something I don't mind sharing if only because someone else should feel that particular hurt, too, you know?

[ex_umbrae817]

beautiful. I'll look for it, because you mentioned. :)

[ex_umbrae817]

mentioned... it. oops. :)

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you really should. she's a poet by trade, not a novelist, and the words are so rich they kind of make you stagger.