It takes a special kind of person to go fishing around in the deepest recesses of the human heart. Most people seem to prefer going through life with all the difficult inner stuff safely walled off, untouchable.
Life is less confusing that way.
But as an artist, and one who sees his mission in distinctly spiritual terms, Franke will settle for nothing less. As a goal, that's no better or worse than other goals. Nothing else really compares to that. It's a great adventure on the one hand, and it's utterly terrifying on the other. I understand now, as an adult, why he saw that as his only option, and I love the man dearly now, in fact as adults we are much closer than we ever were when I was a child, when the alcohol really obscured the love.