Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:39:45 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Dasein as a Simple Mind


I went on a bikeride today and found myself in what seemed like an 
isolated, by itself patch of pristine Oh, maybe not pristine!) 
prairie.  I stop and walk around feeling very much at home, as if 
somehow this were my prairie.  But of course I could only feel that 
(i think) because I recognized almost immediately that this was 
simply prairie, in almost a universal sense, at least in the 
experience of it.  It could be anywhere in the world, and I could by 
anybody in the world.  The experience of it is, potentially at least, 
the same.  In this case, as I described.

It was what one (even, perhaps especially the late, lamented Ronnie) 
might call a "perfect moment." (Notice the indefinite article).  What 
should I do? . . . Proof that time trumps being.  As if I didn't 
already know.

Allen ( Back to the bar)


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