Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:43:21 -0800 From: Kenneth Johnson <beeso-AT-pop.charter.net> Subject: Re: mistranslations Master Pennemacoor wrote: I remember, folks, back in those distant times of 2002 I suggested that beings like Matter and God were the barely thinkable limits/bounds/conditions of/for thinking itself; better they are the horizons of thinking, neither to be believed in nor not to be believed in. Now when we come to being (or it comes to us), [it] being not a being (however inclusive or however profound the foundationality), being comes across (or withdraws) as the utterly unthinkable horizon of all horizons, without which thinking is impossible and impassable. Even less is being to be believed in or not believed in; it is the very possibility of belief and non-belief; the difference between belief and non-belief; difference... Being can thus neither be disputed nor asserted, nevermind proved or disproved, and all speech about it is bathetic chatter even when such speech makes reference to the horizonality it confers. Being comes across in meta-phor, in (mis)trans-lation, in inter-pretation... in the (be)tweens, the crossings, the abouts: one does not have to speak of it at all since the very every possibility of speech and language makes silent reference to its silent heart. What thinkest thou? =================== I as a meselfed being thinkest, that the above is the clearest image so far have i seenest that visaged on the matter of sir being, on the being of the matter of being's being being, its compost, etc. so thankest thee! Kenneth x --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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