Tara Selter has become someone new.
It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind.
The enchanting word-of-mouth sensation accelerates as Tara marks over a decade in the eighteenth of November.
On a cold morning in Bremen, Tara meets Olga and Henry for the first time in almost a thousand days. Together they set off to Val Benoît, an abandoned university where thereis space for anyone who would like to stay.
Every day new people arrive, with new ideas. They know that they will not escape this November day. But that does not mean they have to stand still. They have been given an extraordinary freedom. An opportunity to live in a present full of untapped potential, of optimism.
They spend their days researching, sharing information and discussing new categories of knowledge. Tara organises the archive, finding a home for each analysis, outline, conjecture or reflection. The years pass, ideas flourish, the shelves fill.
Tara has created a new life at Val Benoît, surrounded by friends and even love. Could this be a place to stay?
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