Both singers sound like androids, drifting in slow-motion inside an uncaring cosmos and yearning for something akin to human contact.
At a time when many Indonesians "yearn for a decisive figure akin to Suharto, Prabowo is seen as a return to a stronger, more straightforward Indonesia," says a former high-ranking official in Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission.
(Is that a bicycle bell on the unfurling Michicant?) The over-arching effect is something akin to Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, gone Americana, crossed with the stadium-sized yearning of Coldplay, and inflected with jazz.
Since matter, according to Aristotle and Plotinus, "yearns for formation" and, thus, moving toward the nearness of God, causes the rotation of the spheres, the finest matter of the highest spheres is propelled by the strongest "yearning," which issues from God and returns to him and is active in man (akin to the last line of Dante's Divine Comedy: "The love which moves the sun and the other stars").
But in the decade since 9/11, the yearning for interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance has begun to create a critical density of interwoven threads, more akin to shimmering silk cloth than a fragile web.
This is not 1961: there is no galvanizing historical context akin to the Cold War, no likely politician who can heroize the difficult and dangerous, no body of engineers who yearn for the productive regimentation they had enjoyed in the military, and no popular faith in a science-fictional mythology such as exploring the solar system.
With eagerness akin to love,.
But I felt more akin to Estraven.
I felt very akin to him".
"They are akin to a political appendix.
