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Jan 22, 2023Heike Felber

Many years later, when I had a small ground-floor apartment close to Alexanderplatz, a couple of musicians would stand in front of my window once a week.

Theodor Fontone: "My Childhood"

Holding is reminiscent of an office and sounds slightly bureaucratic today. And so the prefix "inside" is beautiful because it expresses a particularly close - intimate - relationship to an object. If you own an apartment like Fontane, you don't just live there, you have a home there.

Source: Encyclopedia of Beautiful Words | Roland Kaehlbrandt & Walter Kramer

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