From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:59:47 EST
Subject: Re: Dasein



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In a message dated 25/01/2002 12:43:58 GMT Standard Time, 
kenn-AT-beef.sparks.nv.us writes:


> Well said, this 'never isn't there', so evocatory of those deadpanning
> moments I suppose in every human life, at least in those awakened ones who
> in some moment or another are attempting to get beyond all the lines of
> escape and rather seek engagement with the real where this point eternally
> reaches its point (a 'place' for which all religions were created in order
> to avoid seeing this point), a point where the real becomes rock hard,
> frozen, inhuman, the real re.al.izing itself as a glass on the table yes,
> but only to us, as a real that IS a glass on the table and thus (eternally
> momentarily, or forever now) it is there AS a glass on the table, signing
> itself in by: "well, there is nothing to be done about it now"
> (versheenan). Yes, nothing to be done to be sure, but this nothing looms
> eternally up and fuses itself on to the dark heart of this alien glass
> (which is not a glass to itself but only to us) where it becomes something
> that is there without any attempt either to be there or to not be there and
> this alienness is even more stark when it is not a material 'object' that
> is laden down with all this massive "there.ity that is not there" but
> rather an inked "word" isolate inside an inked phrase, be it the word
> 'Dasein' or be it 'a word' that is "there" in, say, 'the bro's karamazov' -
> and all this 'never not there' applies only to the time it is there, as at
> another time, say, it 'becomes' a 'glass on the shelf' or 'a glass on the
> countertop', but the same immemorial fate awaits its eternal 'never isn't
> there' wherever it is. It is trapped tumescently inside the unique and
> frozen bulge of an oxymoronically burgeoning 'thereness', but it is a
> thereness that is and can only be in our mind (a neuronfired mind that is
> also 'never not there' but one that, in some moment or another, notices
> this). Or to say, the 'never not there' is trapped inside the moment of a
> premoment, a potential moment, one unrealized as yet and one never to be
> realized but one that is nevertheless 'the most real', as now and yet
> eternally this remains a 'real' [an actual that in itself is never ever to
> 'actual.ly' become] 'ized'.
> 
> it's almost as if the eternal were eternally refreshing itself at the
> raging center of some non-psychotic moment, intersticed perhaps twixt all
> the psychotic moments constructed of a raging deadpanning malaise
> 
> or not exactly, but sumpin like 'at - -
> 
> -k
> 
> I enjoyed that - a good piece of writing.


Jud Evans

uncouplingthe copula.freewebspace.com

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