Thursday, August 16, 2007

Food for thought

Frédéric Berthet, Journal de Trêve, p.21:
Et la femme fit Dieu à son usage. (Et si l'homme fit Dieu à son image, la femme le fit à son usage.)

MH, GA Bd.13, S.33:
Das Denken, gehorsam dem Seyn, sucht diesem das Wort.
Das Denken des Seyns ist die Sorge für den Sprach-gebrauch.


You can hear a lot of nonsense on the 100 and 200 bus lines, and it helps to read from such works as those I've quoted above, especially when you hear a tourist claiming they misspelled Checkpoint Charlie on the sign posted to tell such creatures how to get there, insisting that, "You spell 'Charlie' with a 'Y'." Now, I ask you, what would that look like? Checkpoynt Charly, I suppose. Somehow, I don't think it would have become famous under that label.
Anyway...

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