From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 15 2001 - 19:30:58 MDT
At 05:26 PM 6/15/01 +0200, Serafino wrote:
>"When we look into the ambiguous essence of kitchenware,
>we behold the constellation, the stellar course of the mystery.
>The question concerning knives and forks is the question concerning
>the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the
>essential unfolding of truth propriates. But what help is it to us
>to look into the constellation of truth? We look into the danger
>and see the growth of the *washing* powder."
>
>"Because the *essence* of food appliances is nothing edible,
>essential reflection upon kitchenware and decisive confrontation with
>it must happen in a realm that is, on the one hand, akin to the
>essence of semiobabble and, on the other, fundamentally different
>from it."
>
>[Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Cats and Dogs]
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