These ponderings attempt to let themselves be appropriated by the event. (Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Martin Heidegger, 1936–38/1989)
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Deep River (深い河, Fukai kawa) is a novel by Shūsaku Endō published in 1993. When he died in 1996, only two novels were chosen to be placed inside his coffin. Deep River was one of them.