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And lo and behold, by not seeing, he hears better. And he hears a melody in the distance, played by a barrel organ grinder. And now he remembers: decades ago, he had danced his first dance to this same melody, which the barrel organ grinder is now playing. What he had experienced back then had not crossed his mind since, but had been lying dormant in his subconscious. But now, as he looks at a book title, he hears and does not hear – as if in an intermediate state between hearing and not hearing – and the melody brings it back to his memory. And he has to smile, as he laughed when he had his dancer in front of him and he danced his first dance to the same melody.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p023","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Er kann das selber gar nicht fassen. Da kommt er darauf, sich zu sagen: Ich werde vielleicht die Augen zumachen, um dadurch vielleicht zu ergründen, warum es mir passieren muss, dass ich bei diesem ernsten Buchtitel lache. Er macht die Augen zu. Und siehe da, indem er nicht sieht, hört er besser. Und er hört ganz in der Ferne eine Melodie, die ein Drehorgelmann spielt. Und jetzt kommt er darauf: Vor Jahrzehnten hatte er sein erstes Tänzchen auf diese selbe Melodie, die jetzt der Drehorgelmann spielt, getanzt. Das, was er damals erlebt hatte, das ist ihm seither nicht wieder ins Bewusstsein gekommen, das hat unten im Bewusstsein ein ungekanntes Dasein geführt. Aber jetzt, wo er auf einen Buchtitel hinschaut, da hört er und hört nicht — so in einem Zwischenzustand zwischen Hören und Nichthören —, da kommt ihm wiederum das in Erinnerung durch diese Melodie. 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