File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0109, message 60


Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:02:42 -0400
From: edwin ruda <edwin.ruda-AT-verizon.net>
Subject: Path-os of Being


Report: "Being" Attacked

Boom - Rumble - Boom. Edwin's studio is 
on Hudson Street, about ten blocks north of
of the Twin Towers. He gets downstairs a few
minutes after the second plane hits the South
Tower...masses of people gazing upward 
at the buildings wrapped in smoke and flame.
Silence, whispers, as if one were in a theater
and wished to catch each word and every
movement of the performers in a five-star
drama.... 

("The laboring animal is left to the giddy whirl of
its products so that it may tear itself to pieces
and annihilate itself as empty nothingness").

Edwin is struck by the "boredom" & "entertainment"
features of the event, even while repelled by its realtime 
horror. He wears a white mask for malodorous dust 
protection, and his shoes are covered with rubble 
soot. The police cars, amblances. and trucks whizz by in 
all directions, red & yellow lights flashing, sirens wailing. 
Will there be an intermission?

("It almost seems as if the being of pain were cut off 
from man...similarly the being of joy. Can the extreme
measure of suffering still bring a transformation here?")

Good citizens line Broadway and West Street 
applauding the firefighters, policemen, and workmen
who emerge from the search for buried victims. 
Edwin applauds too.

Ed


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