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:
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> 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"
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>
> emjay
> Roger Day wrote:
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> > When manufactured diamond becomes cheap enough, I think it will be
> > used as a storage medium. Diamond will last virtually forever, if kept
> > correctly.
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> --
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> 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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