Subject: Re: Romantic  Turn
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:33:06 -0500 (EST)


Greetings Edward, almost thought the lurker's night brisked you away into
essential concealment.

	In _What is called Thinking_ H derives the word "thought" from the
Old English verbs  _thencan_ (to think) and _thancian_ (to thank).
Is an owl perhaps thankful for his thoughts to the night understood (in
Heideggers's sense) as a gathering where one remembers what remains
forgotten or concealed? Memory he suggest was once 'understood' as
thoughtful meditation where one abides with something letting it be, that
is, letting whatever is there( es gibt - which is what gives your were
asking Lucio?) 'show' itself from itself and so remain in the darkness of
thematization, sleep of cognition. Such is the heart of thinking moved by
anguish, sparked by emptiness. But this might be too romantic a turn in
a phrase, wouldn't want to x-press too much the contracting dissipating
mush of language.

I started reading from a book which might interest you called _The New
Gnosis: Heiddeger, Hillman, and Angels_ by Robert Avens.

A nod in the Maelstrom,
Ariosto


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