Dear Klaus,

I don't think practice necessarily is self-closing but I do see that any
instance of practice IS of necesiity self-closing - that is, when I am
practicising I am - when I am not I am not. This is not simply a
function of languge, it is a spatio-temporal-identity thing. Thus I am
the man riding a bike when I am a man riding a bike. This externality
haunts all my efforts to stay within my subjectivity - take Sartre on
SHAME for instance - my identity as a bike rider is put upon me and
taken from me just as the place and charge of particles is put upon them
and taken from them. All the phenomenology in the world will not fix my
soul to the fixing point of the absolute nor will it have my soul slide
into the gutter of the incomplete. No irony will forgive my urgent need
for mediation and hence I ride the bike, but never again do I ride the
bike. Perplexity is upon me like the tiger of Jung. As Joyce might say:
"Latin me that you Trinity Scholars".

keith



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i don't think practice necessarily is self-closing.  yes, there is the
category of riding a bike and its denial.  but this category resides in
the use of language, not in its practice.

first, we may ask when does one ride a bike?  when one sleeps on the
wheels of a bike lying on the floor? when one works out on a stationary
bike in a fitness center?  when one  balances on a bike without moving
(except to keep the balance)?  i think we are reasonably clear what it
entails "riding a bike" and so it is with design.
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