Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:32:09 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: eros... glossed


>Some thoughts, barely thoughts: there are times when one is in a state or
>mood that can only be immediately and crudely described as a powerful
>desire, but not a desire for this or that; in this mood one grows, blows up,
>expands without seemingly physically changing at all; one is nearer the
>world somehow, almost (but, precisely not quite) touching the presence of
>every thing, feeling that tantalising presencing of absolutely everything,
>ta panta. For the most part such a desire for nothing-in-particular is
>glossed and diverted into a desire for some thing that can satisfy such for
>a whiling, a tarry along with the satisfying and frustrating things about;
>but this desire for nothing is the strong river that 'powers' such tributary
>streams of desires for this and that. And I ask, what is this river?
>
>
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"The words which gather.. ."  The "speech of the Logos."  The river 
analogy fails a bit here( A river doesn't gather, exactly), but don't 
the sorts of words we're talking about evoke and redirect (ah, here's 
a bit of the river) the formless desire into a form capable of 
becoming a whiling or tarrying of a particular sort, say philosophy? 
What is given is held in safe-keeping in the POSSIBILITY of language 
speaking , and then is drawn out by an attunement of one's own 
interpretative voice with the inner voice of the Word, the verbum 
interius.

Turns out that Augustine ( the first hearer of the verbum interius) 
was quite the Neoplatonist, and very much enamored of the capacity of 
the words of Plotinus to "reactivate" the orientation which was 
hidden, secreted in the words to begin with.  What would Husserl and 
Heidegger done without Augustine?!

Regards,

Allen
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