The Berlin Wall Comments

Ah, Herbert, as a 'Wings of Desire' fan, and someone who was in art school in New York City in November,1989, and going down to the lobby for a break to chance upon the magical headlines and photos in the TIMES, I felt 'ich ben ein Berliner', too! I did a big painting of the scene. Not long after, a friend of mine who went to a different country every December to the 'International Santa Claus Conference', did charity work, and posed for a photo with hundreds of people all dressed as Santa, brought me back a small piece of the wall. It looked just like the wall all covered with bright orange graffiti in Wim Wender's film. On a plane flight a couple years ago, I happened to see a video of the Pink Floyd production of the rock opera, 'The Wall', AT the site of the wall, a few years later-hundreds of thousands in attendance. The Soul of humanity was exposed at that site! The wall was part of its skeleton, or something, and there was an outcropping of its Soul! Lately I've also seen 'Goodbye, Lenin'. And you bring it all back to a moment with Gorbechav in his sauna hearing Kennedy speak. Fascinating!

Nicely put Herbert! !