From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Suffix for Many Occasions
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:34:19 -0800


Michael, the antidote to too much gestell is another revealing [actual
process]; anything pre-processive then can become processive by adding
'esis' suffix to a noun perhaps, making it into a verb. Also Heidegger
called gestell the 'revealing destining' because it is the only revealing
which reveals our destiny. When we see what is set up there, it is more
likely what we will see on many other occasions to come, until long past the
'reverse mortgage', when the equity in the home is being used to dodge
taxes. More and bigger Walmart Supercenters...they will give us free
scooters rather than those very large shopping carts like they do at Costco.
I bought somethings at Costco and I still have them 8 years later (I bought
the economy size for single people; then got hitch temporarily as a trial).

-esis Greek A word termination denoting action, process, or condition; see
also -sis

hypsokinesis hypso- + kin- + -esis A backward swaying, retropulsion, or
falling when in erect posture, seen in paralysis agitans,... Dorland's
Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Falling can be an emotion unlike other emotions; we may have said earlier
that falling was a sensation only. But then we were not falling for fun; for
survival yes. Now we are falling to the earth; falling down the fall line,
avalanche chute on skiis, face shots.

To much Gestell would be Ge-stell-itis. I would not call it gestell-esis, or
anything actually processive. Gestell is a peculiar method, somewhat
heteropoetic. It has this character of the 'hypsokinetic' parapatetic
[continous walking, ambling professor]

too much is set up in a way

chao

johnF



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