Date:          Thu, 14 May 1998 6:44:30 EST
Subject:       Re: Language?



>Michael Staples
>Henry, as I understand it the answer would be "Yes"...music can be
>poetry. I always got the feeling that Heidy was setting poetry up as
>more fundamental than music, but I'm not really very sure of this. But
>the way I feel, without being able to support it really, is that music
>is at least poetic and perhaps even somehow more fundamental that
>poetry. But what about Robert's suggestion that language is that which
>grants access to being? What is language anyway?
>
>


without the context of b&t (or "system" as Robert would have it)
and just going with the first page of safranski's _heidegger_
i'd hafta say that "mood" is basic to dasein, and poetry would
be the flow of mood, be it within a systematic symbolic diddly-yadda
or another sound reception bringing in (opening up) harmony or discord
or some of each and more...

...and you know, Michael, the song of the universe
 is ooooommmmmmmmm...

hen



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