Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:56:31 +0000
Subject: Zollikon: Unconscious: music
From: "Michael Pennamacoor" <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>


One Michael to another recently:

>> Michael,

>> What is the issue with metaphorical meanings vs. literal meanings?

>Michael,
>The issue is how language is to be understood and how we dwell in
>language.
>The distinction between literal and metaphorical meanings comes
>ultimately from Platonic metaphysics in which the sensuously given being
>lying before us in the present is distinguished from its true being in
>the idea.

Michaels: please forgive a late (and possibly irrelevant) interruption from an other
Michael; in some ways, music sits midway and can be a bridge between the so-called
platonic realms of the present sensual/physical (beings-as-beings) and the 'out-of-sight'
(non-presenting) non-sensual/metaphysical (being-as-the-being-of-beings); the stream of
musical sounds (sensual) are (say) com-posed (non-present, not experienced as composition,
one is too busy with the loveliness of tone...); the music is only the streamings of tones
but it is not exhausted in them -- the streams point to what is not any stream (otherwise
we could not hear them as be-longing to, longing-for, music) the composition, the laying
out, the logos...); music excites a long-ing, a stretching from the sensuous beauty of the
sounds towards what is not hearable, nevermind heard, it is erotic; this erotic charge
orients us to the longing for being that grants us the possibility of distinguishing
between music and noise, metaphoricity and literal-mindedness, poetry and mathematics, et
al. It is the music in and of language that brings us a flash, a glimpse of being amongst
the linguistic beings (words, phonemes, sentences, etc) that abound... the thinker sings
and rings to the resonance of being.

singalonga MichaelP







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