The bowler hat was a motif in the musical composition that was Sabina's life. It returned again and again, each time with a different meaning, and all the meanings flowed through the bowler hat like water through a riverbed. I might call it Heraclitus' ('You can´t step twice into the same river') riverbed: the bowler hat was a bed through which each time Sabina saw another river flow, another semantic river : each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one. Each new experience would resound, each time enriching the harmony.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
