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Erich Von Hungen
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Erich von Hungen – The Moment

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

The pinpoint perspective of the present moment can feel so sharp but ultimately always impossible to fathom and out of our reach. As Erich von Hungen writes, it is simultaneously hard and soft, early and late, tiny and all-encompassing 'like a pocket-sized Big Bang.'

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