Subject: Re: being and nothingness
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:43:27 -0500 (EST)


I can't believe the rythmic resonnance, one of my favorite quotes from
Nietzsche, that great teacher of the active will, patience, Agamben
would refer to Aristotle's tabula rasa, more nothingness for those we
the oblique ears to hear. Obliqueness going all over the place, isn't
that a way for all of us to show respect for each others erudition?
That which Nietzsche would call communications from peak to peaks, in the
pathos of distance. Another favorite from the _Twilight of The Idols_
section, appropriately enough, "what the Germans lack"

Listen to what he says regarding the necessity of educators,

"One has to learn to _see_, one has to learn to _think_, one has to
learn to _speak_ and _write_: the end in all three is noble culture.
--Learning to _see_-- habituating the eye to repose, to patience, to
letting things come to it; learning to defer judgement, to investigate
and comprehend the individual case in all its aspects. This is the
_first_ preliminary schooling in spirituality: _not_ to react
immediately to a stimulus, but to have the restraining; stock-taking
instincts in one's control. Learning to _see_, as I understand it, is
almost what is called in unphilosophical language 'strong will-power':
the essence of it is precisely _not_ to 'will', the _ability_ to defer
decision" Echo of Derrida on postponements

The meister speaks now, _Gallesenheit_, spelling is probably wrong, but
also Eckhart's letting beings be, you know, like the Beatles?

Or active forgetting which I am suggesting can be provocatively
juxtaposed with resolute attunement and Levina's assignation.

The important quote on active forgetting is found in _Geneology Of
Morals_ second essay:

"To close the doors and windows of consc. for a time; to remain
undisturbed by the noise and struggle of our underworld of utility
organs working with and against one another; a little quietness, a
little tabula rasa of consc., to make room for new things above all for
the nobler functions and functionaries, for regulation, foresight,
premeditation (for our organism is an oligarchy)--that is the purpose
of active forgetfulness, which is like a doorkeeper, a preserver of
psychic order, repose, and etiquette..."

clearly we address the warm flames of meditative practice and how it is
articulated through language. And not cold argumentative propositional
discourse--that's going out, there is no polite way of saying it, an
exorcism is underway. 

Good idea to post quotes that you think move the dynamic action along
without feeling pressure to show how you write and think and feel. Nice
start.

Ariosto


> John Foster wrote:
> 
> >Only being in love of what is complete is attitude. Love is the attitude
> >of >respect. Love as attitude is life affirming life.
> 
> 
>   Aphorism # 334 from Die froliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science)
> 
>                      One must learn to love.
> ---  This is what happens to us in music: First one has to learn to hear a
> figure and melody at all, to detect and distinguish it, to isolate it and
> delimit it as a separate life. Then it requires some exertion and good will
> to tolerate it in spite of its strangeness, to be patient with its
> appearance and expression, and kindhearted about its oddity. Finally there
> comes a moment when we are used to it, when we wait for it, when we sense
> that we should miss it if it were missing; and now it continues to compel
> and enchant us relentlessly until we have become its humble and enraptured
> lovers who desire nothing better from the world than it and only it.
>      But that is what happens to us not only in music. That is how we have
> learned to love  all things that we now love. In the end we are always
> rewarded for our good will, our patience, fairmindedness, and gentleness
> with what is strange; gradually, it sheds its veil and turns out to be a
> new and indescribable beauty. That is its thanks for our hospitality. Even
> those who love themselves will have learned it in this way; for there is no
> other way. Love, too, has to be learned. ---
> ---------------
> 
> One thing i didn't like about your poem mr. Foster was it ended about
> 60,000 lines too soon. If that was chapter one, i'd sure like to read a few
> more. It certainly has the elements i like, in terms of form, content,
> style and, and, and one other word which i can't seem to put my finger on
> right now; no, not 'sentiment', but something, something, - - - - -
> nomadic? ? connecting? ?
> ---
> 
> Ariosto Raggo's quote of Wallace Stevens' line on 'snowman thought', "And,
> nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that
> is." (p. 9 _The Complete Poems_), wow!
> 
> The nothing that is something, whose essence is absence of essence,
> absentness. Nothing as a force, a 'for-itself', 'coiled like a worm at the
> heart of Being'. Good ol Sartre.
> 
> To two Northern stars rising I say, Amor fati!
> ---
> 
> kj
> 
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