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copperplate
Misunderstanding displaced the world for me. But in a good way; it signaled the way, to go inside of it. Every impulse was correct to it. So dictated chance once, that in my presence, the word ‘copperplate’ was spoken. On … Continue reading
discus
An action performed in the film studio therefore differs from the corresponding real action the way the competitive throwing of a discus in a sports arena would differ from the throwing of the same discus from the same spot in … Continue reading
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‘…its language is the idea of prose itself, which is understood by all humans just as the language of birds is understood by those born on Sunday.’ WB ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’.
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‘I sat at night in violent pain on a bench. Opposite me on another, two girls sat down. They seemed to want to discuss something in confidence and began to whisper. Nobody except me was nearby, and I would not … Continue reading
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‘The language of this lamp, e.g., does not communicate the lamp (for the spiritual essence of the lamp, to the extent to which it is communicable, is certainly not the lamp itself), but: the language-lamp, the lamp in the communication, … Continue reading
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‘First principle of wooing: to make oneself sevenfold’ WB, ‘Optician’, Selected Works, Vol. 1 1913-1926, p.472.
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‘Sheet of paper has gone missing must look for it at home. It contained: 1. The discussion of the concept of “system” and the doctrine of the extinguishing of intention in the truth, explained in terms of the veiled image … Continue reading
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‘Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars’ ‘Epistemo-Critical Prologue’, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, p.34.
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‘Was it not noticeable at the end of the war that men returned from the battlefield grown silent—not richer, but poorer in communicable experience? What ten years later was poured out in the flood of war books was anything but experience that … Continue reading
