Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:01:30 -0700
Subject: Re: "The Witness Of Being" - Zaine Ridling, Ph.D.


>Dear Ken,
>
>Regarding your quote of the forward to
>"Witness Of Being," I thought of sending my own
>brief, interpretive summary, to a budding young poet.
>Since my field is painting rather than philosophy, I
>would appreciate any critique you or others may offer
>of my following take on  the passage you quoted:
>
>"Heidegger apparently had great hopes for poetic language
>which isn't merely everyday language of the kind that
>tends toward self-centered expression or explaining what
>this or that thing-object is. Regarding Being "itself,"
>I gather that it remains the "uniquely" unsayable, albeit
>that poetry opens the way to that which remembers the
>originary and temporally, active path of the historical."
>
>I would also be interested in any objections
>you might have had to ZR's forward.
>
>Ed Ruda

Mr. Ruda, this reply here is only just to let you know I've not ignored
your comments and questions, and even started roughdrafting a response to
them as far as it went, and which i'll leave in below. My reason for
dropping it short of the mark (which was aiming at the powerful force in
poetic thinking) and not finishing it all has to do with a certain chaos in
my spirit these days (or to speak slightly poetically, albeit starwarily, I
feels something akin to: "there's a disturbance in the force") one making
it difficult to concentrate on such things. In fact I've half a dozen posts
on various recent matters still unfinished in my outbox, one on Rene's
music post, another responding to Gary's appreciation toward my posting of
the excerpt from Conrad - and which both attempts wound up grossly
overwritten, and also several others  - so, or rather all this just to say,
that as soon as I get my xrope untangled and properly reknotted and get the
xhell climbed up outta this here little xabyss i'll  try to finish all and
arrow them out on their cybretic way.

Regards,
kenneth

=============
Hello Ed, well in terms of the radical incommensurability twixt seeing and
saying one has always to cautiously "analyze" those nervous system
"seeings" (mental images) which saying can create via the mnemonic power of
symbols, this no less than one would also undertake to analyze any of the
other environmental sign.als, not just mnemonic ink marks but also mnemonic
aromas on the breeze, bent grass, concavities in sand, as so to receive all
the messages which that force we have arbitrailly named "nature" has
provisioned itself with toward a successful means to interpret itself in
the world in terms of sensing apparati.

-

If one is merely analytic in bent toward signs, then one acquires only a
purely functionary relationship in the use of symbols wherein one of the
functions of functionary symbols is to understand functions themselves by
employing them functionally as an analytic tool which is use.full for
observing the analytic tool that analytically observes, but no more than
this, and since poetry is not functional in - - - - -








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