See as well hypokeimenon in this journal.
Monday, December 9, 2019
Lost in Translation
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Sunday, April 7, 2019
Block Talk
David Brooks in The New York Times Sunday Review today —
" 'In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology
has warned us,' Annie Dillard writes in 'Teaching a Stone to Talk.'
'But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them
farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate
or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys
the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power
for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for
each other.' "
Annie Dillard on the legendary philosopher's stone —
“… if Holy the Firm is matter at its dullest, Aristotle’s materia prima ,
absolute zero, and since Holy the Firm is in touch with the Absolute
at base, then the circle is unbroken. And it is…. Holy the Firm is
in short the philosopher’s stone.”
See also "The Thing and I."
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Stevens and the Rock
Passage quoted in A Philosopher's Stone (April 4, 2013)—
This passage from Heidegger suggested the lexicon excerpt on
to hypokeimenon (the underlying) in yesterday's post Lexicon.
A related passage:
The Eliade passage was quoted in a 1971 Ph.D. thesis
on Wallace Stevens.
Some context— Stevens's Rock in this journal.
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Lexicon
From the final pages of the new novel
Lexicon , by Max Barry:
|
"… a fundamental language
"… the questions raised by R. Lowell |
"… the clocks were striking thirteen." — 1984
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
A Philosopher’s Stone
"Core" (in the original, Kern ) is perhaps
not the best translation of hypokeimenon :
See also Heidegger's original German:
Related material: In this journal, "underlie" and "underlying."
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