If as a spectator one stubbornly holds on to this long minimalistic monotony one is forced along into a trance while thunder approaches and the rain at last pours down over the earth and a Russian Easter mass lifts one toward heaven

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"If, as a spectator, one stubbornly holds on to this long minimalistic monotony, one is forced along into a trance while thunder approaches, and the rain, at last, pours down over the earth, and a Russian Easter mass lifts one toward heaven."