I was going to apologise for being crude, but what with my glass house 'n'
all you'd probably think it artificial, so what's the point.
On 01/11/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Kasper 1) I am not an academic 2) Translations of the German are
> found in what I wrote, if you take the trouble to look. 3) As to the
> word "posturing", you may recall a little proverb about glass houses -
> which doesn't absolve me, of course: I plead guilty to thinking it a
> good thing to present what was really written as well as the equivalent
> in the vernacular. I had to omit the Chinese ideograms, unfortunately.
> emjay
>
> kasper salonen wrote:
>
> > are we supposed to understand german MJ? what kind of academic
> > posturing is
> > that
> >
> > On 31/10/06, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Nothing will last forever, I hope, least of all words, words, words:
> >> "Denn alles, was entsteht,/ Ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht." (*Faust*)
> >> Of course, Mephisto goes on: Drum besser wär's, dass nichts entstünde.
> >> This appears to contradict Nietzsche's "Denn alle Lust will Ewigkeit,
> >> will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit." But N. (who relativises the first part of
> >> the Goethe quote in *Also sprach Zarathustra*) does not say the objects
> >> of pleasure/joy/desire must be eternal, it is the joy/desire itself
that
> >> requires eternity, perhaps as an aspect of itself? No finite object can
> >> ever be adequate to Lust. Mephisto, like Plato, is distrustful of
> >> Becoming; the first part of his statement is true: all that comes into
> >> existence is entitled to vanish in the abyss of oblivion; the second
> >> part is only true for those who resent transience. Their secret
nihilism
> >> is to say with Meph that it were better that nothing ever came into
> >> existence, if transience is true .
> >>
> >> Anxious words, unwilling to pass away, like streetscapes
> >> and fountains, like visitors from outer space entrenched on some border
> >> fondling sunset glow before abruptly releasing a bolt of brocade
beauty:
> >> the void is no more than a flower! - Zhang Zao: "The Infinite"
> >>
> >>
> >> emjay
> >> Roger Day wrote:
> >>
> >> > When manufactured diamond becomes cheap enough, I think it will be
> >> > used as a storage medium. Diamond will last virtually forever, if
kept
> >> > correctly.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> M.J. Walker: http://walkoff.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Got to look at it at sunset when it's PINK
> >> My guidebook said. Good advice about anything I suppose.
> >>
> >> Kenneth Koch
> >>
> >
>
> --
>
> M.J. Walker: http://walkoff.wordpress.com/
>
> Got to look at it at sunset when it's PINK
> My guidebook said. Good advice about anything I suppose.
>
> Kenneth Koch
>
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