Magic Moments

Hermann Simon

Chapter 14 in Many Worlds, One Life, 2021, pp 263-278 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Many stories and personal experiences remain forever etched in my memory. Some are tied to watershed moments in history—such as German reunification—while others arose from events with no relevance to the wider world. These magic moments include “Return from Nowhere,” the story of the return of Jewish Holocaust survivors to my hometown in the Eifel. They include the encounter with Henry Kissinger at the very moment that the 9/11 attacks occurred. I tell stories of nights in Moscow in the Soviet era. I share my fears when the earth shook in Tokyo and in Mexico City. And I conclude with a mysterious flight 40,000 years after our time, captured in the verse: “And my soul spread out its wings, and flew over the quiet land, as if it were flying home.”

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-60758-6_14

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