Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Normal?

Crumble,
never my way.
Always my way.
And eat it.
Cookies and Cake.

Decadence
Resourcefulness
Wealth
Poverty
Envy
Pity
Disgust
Disgust
Middle class view.

Carrying on,
what is normal?
To be similar to
and/or to want to
assimilate with
the majority or
popular, to be/become
like the ideal,
never the average
but to want to be
the best,
mediocrity perceived
as excellence,
to not recognize
what something is as
what it truly is, to
not think for oneself,
to respect tradition,
society, civilization,
for having raised them
(subconsciously)
To do, act, think like
their ideal, they cannot
be themselves. Normal is
no one and everyone for

everyone is in a sense individual and proud or upset with who they are but either way they acknowledge that they are and so in being individual they are different to everyone else as everyone is different to everyone else and no one is normal, but in a way everyone wants to blend in and must assimilate in order to get along with other people and we need to get along with other people because we are by nature gregarious and need to be with other people and people want normal people as friends so we must at least appear to be normal in order to gain trust and possibly respect: there is a level on which people connect to each other, outside of individuality which is different to everyone else, a level where people try to highlight, express, and discuss similarities so as to try to get along; normal is what people must become to work on this level, for conversation, even to survive through work which requires assimilation. This is level is the normal, where people search for similarities rather than differences, the latter occuring at the level of the individual.

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