Aufhebung Aufhebung f

a (=Abschaffung) abolition
[+von Gesetz auch] repeal, rescinding
[+von Vertrag] cancellation, annulment, revocation
[+von Urteil] reversal, quashing
[+von Verlobung] breaking off

b (=Beendigung) [+von Blockade etc] raising, lifting
[+von Beschränkung] removal
[+von Sitzung] closing
[+von Parlament] dissolving

c [+von Widerspruch] resolving, resolution
[+von Schwerkraft] neutralization, cancelling out

d obs (=Festnahme) capture, seizure

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ or ‘how very perceptive’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.

Neil Gaiman

About my own Carver.ing dishes (at least a conflict remider):


Beyond the boundaries of the ordinary world of lives and houses, unguessed, undreamed of in their common-sense philosophy, lies the vast realm of the improbable; a world too disordered, so it would seem to hold together for a fortnight, let alone several years. And yet these lives, these houses continue to maintain a precarious equilibrium in defiance of all laws of man and nature. All the same, persons who base their calculations on the inexorable pressure of the force of circumstance assume, correctly, that such lives are doomed.

– J. Cocteau

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"...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

R.M. Rilke


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