Truth establishes itself in the work.* Truth essentially occurs only as the strife between the clearing and concealing in the opposition of world and earth. Truth wills to be established in the work as this strife of world and earth. The strife is not to be resolved in being brought forth for that purpose,…
My post of yesterday was a singularly grim, unnerving topic, the German V-1 rocket bomb. It was labeled by its creators, vengeance weapon. For 80 days they rained down on London in 1944. One could evaluate by a study of the development, use, and purpose of the V-1, the meaning of German society in…
A poetic codename for the V-1 flying bomb, or “Vengeance Weapon” launched against London on June 13, 1944. The flying bomb, was developed at Peenemunde Army Research Center in 1939 by the German Luftwaffe. It was a weapon of desperation, launched after the successful D-day landing on the beaches in France. Nearly 10,000 V-1s…
Things are, and human beings, gifts and sacrifices are, animals and plants are, equipment and works are. The particular being stands in Being. Through Being there passes a veiled fatality that is ordained between the godly and the countergodly. There is much in being that man cannot master. There is but little that comes…
The world is not the mere collection of the countable or the uncountable, familiar and unfamiliar things that are at hand. But neither is it a merely imagined framework added by our representation to the sum of such given things. The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible…
Dreams come when they will. Most of mine are indistinct, and the memory evaporates within minutes of waking. Years ago when I worked with a therapist, dreams came often, nightly if I remember. The unconscious was stirring, the therapist working as a friendly guide helped me to knock at the door of long unacknowledged…
I watched. The Patriots over the Rams 13 to 3, a defensive game, like watching a tableau of trench warfare, grinding on…. At last the Rams broke and the Patriots scored a touch down. This was the Patriots sixth Super Bowl win. Six rings,–what to do with them all? The game was the second…
We drove to Milwaukee, the traffic enveloped in a miasma of salt and soot laced snow-melt spray. The bone chilling sub-zero cold has passed. Our objective was the Fiserve Forum where we had tickets for a performance of Cirque du Soleil Crystal. Words cannot be easily found to describe the unfolding of figure skating,…
To be reverentially unexplored and pure or nonsensical bunkum of appeal, worshiped or derided, an oblique perspective on existence freed from customary egoistic vigilance taking leave of the “I.” Becoming a vagabond promiscuous thing to find ourselves loving, an intensity of enthusiasm, now distributed, erratically and generously to experience generosity, nobility of feeling, selflessness…
Defeated by the slow moving traffic on a inordinately chilled morning, I returned to home base. Reconsidering the day ahead, I had time for some emails and reading. I am eager to begin an essay by Heidegger, THE ORIGIN OF THE WORK OF ART. Here are some sentences from the first paragraph. On the…
