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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 07:50:34 +0000
Subject: Re: the distance to the distant
From: "michaelP" <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


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Kenneth bringing into nearness:

>> up there, in those 
>> words before these words, those words were all made up up there only
>> to segue unawarily into the sense of being lost down here. not lost
>> in the distant but in distance itself, as when in the mid ninteenth
>> century the wagon trains left st louis missouri on their way to
>> Oregon City, situated at the confluence of the Columbia and
>> Willamette rivers where, incidentally, in time distant, i once owned
>> a boathouse, it happened to these intrepid pioneers 'on the way'
>> there that one of the most etched, tho not really articulated,
>> feelings arising and growing ever etchingly larger in them from week
>> on week on week all following on and on into month on month on month
>> of conquering distance, that all this together meant a time when
>> distance became the central aspect of living, and there were
>> unarticulated times when these intrepids felt that distance itself
>> was the most supreme thing possible, the most lived concept, but
>> never articulated as such. i mean, distance was no longer a
>> measurement, but became a state of being, a state they had fallen
>> into without however ever being taught what it was and what could be
>> done about it and there was nothing left for them to do but get up
>> every morning and move on out into it, into "the distance" which they
>> themselves were, into the distance "as" the distance.

I cannot perform immediately a fit and proper response to this most
excellent exposition of kenneth's, but I do feel that it ought come into the
region, the co-regioning of the orbit of Heidegger's 'Gelassenheit'. In that
text, the Scholar suggests "That-which-regions [being, the horizoning of all
horizons] itself would be the nearness of distance, and the distance of
nearness...". Later in the dialogue, the three discuss the nature of
thinking in the light of being (the nearness of distance,
that-which-regions) and come across a single-word fragment (122) of
Heraclitus, which reads "Agchibasie" [forgive transliteration] and is
interpreted as "moving-into-nearness" (like kenneth's intrepid travellers).

regards

michaelP

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Re: the distance to the distant Kenneth bringing into nearness:

>> up there, in those
>> words before these words, those words were all made up up there only
>> to segue unawarily into the sense of being lost down here. not lost
>> in the distant but in distance itself, as when in the mid ninteenth
>> century the wagon trains left st louis missouri on their way to
>> Oregon City, situated at the confluence of the Columbia and
>> Willamette rivers where, incidentally, in time distant, i once owned
>> a boathouse, it happened to these intrepid pioneers 'on the way'
>> there that one of the most etched, tho not really articulated,
>> feelings arising and growing ever etchingly larger in them from week
>> on week on week all following on and on into month on month on month
>> of conquering distance, that all this together meant a time when
>> distance became the central aspect of living, and there were
>> unarticulated times when these intrepids felt that distance itself
>> was the most supreme thing possible, the most lived concept, but
>> never articulated as such. i mean, distance was no longer a
>> measurement, but became a state of being, a state they had fallen
>> into without however ever being taught what it was and what could be
>> done about it and there was nothing left for them to do but get up
>> every morning and move on out into it, into "the distance" which they
>> themselves were, into the distance "as" the distance.

I cannot perform immediately a fit and proper response to this most
excellent exposition of kenneth's, but I do feel that it ought come into the
region, the co-regioning of the orbit of Heidegger's 'Gelassenheit'. In that
text, the Scholar suggests "That-which-regions [being, the horizoning of all
horizons] itself would be the nearness of distance, and the distance of
nearness...". Later in the dialogue, the three discuss the nature of
thinking in the light of being (the nearness of distance,
that-which-regions) and come across a single-word fragment (122) of
Heraclitus, which reads "Agchibasie" [forgive transliteration] and is
interpreted as "moving-into-nearness" (like kenneth's intrepid travellers).

regards

michaelP
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