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Uno Hoffmann

LETHE

While leaves, trees and vines can all renew
themselves, the human body, with the passing of
time, is fated to become only weaker, frailer and more
vulnerable. Yet, if we lose a finger, a foot or suffer from
a weakened heart, these painful losses do not dissolve
our emotional and intellectual cores. Our personality
can still live on deeply, courageously and resolutely;
we can still nurture and intensely express love in many
Sponsored by: ways. The map of our thoughts, memories, dreams
and relationships is uprooted; the signposts that help
us navigate our life are irreversibly reduced to an
abstraction and eventually disappear. This is Lethe.

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