Wahrscheinlich so ein bebrillter Pickelknabe, der heimlich unter der
Bettdecke den HUSTLER liest.
>
> DIE SCHERE #15: Notes
> This is a strikingly enigmatic text, inserted -- there is no evident (1)
> connection to the previous not to the following texts -- before EJ returns in
> #16
> to the topic taken up in #12. The language, both its grammar and its images,
> is
> so compressed that only the initiated will grasp what EJ means to say or
> rather
> to intimate here. You may, though, become one of those initiated if you study
> and
> compare other passages in EJ's works where he speaks in a similar fashion
> about
> what he addresses here. His topic is what is, to my mind, the secret centre of
> his later writings: what is beyond the Wall of Time ("Zeitmauer") and the ways
> how to get closer to it. Here he mentions collective memories of mankind
> ("gemeinsame Erinnerungen") and experiences shared by all humans -- pain and
> bliss -- which may take us to the threshold or may signal that beyond there
> might
> be ("sollte es...geben") something we can only surmise as being greater and
> more
> wonderful than anything we know here. As usual EJ presents this idea as an
> image:
> beyond there might be a text of which we have only read its traces on blotting
> paper. (2)
> I am aware that this is a brazen simplification of a text which is
> deliberately
> enigmatic. The grammar, to begin with, is ambiguous: who is the subject, the
> "we"
> of this text: every human, or exclusively the few initiated readers of this
> text
> who understand it and are on the same wavelength as its author? Or does a
> visionary speak here for all mankind? Moreover, the image "Kreuzwege" is
> ambiguous as well: it can mean 'crossroads' but also 'stations of the Cross';
> without further qualification it is almost empty of meaning -- unless the
> initiated knows what specific "Kreuzwege" the Master has in mind. Similarly,
> the
> statement, "we have very often encountered each other there", is vague or
> banal
> for the common reader, But for those who know their EJ intimately it will be a
> shorthand symbol for -- well, I have not yet done enough close and comparative
> reading of EJ to dare to go on.
> (1)You may detect, however, a link between "Doch wird jeder Punkt bedeutend
> -- ob
> er merkt wird oder nicht" in #15 and the concept of the foreboding signal
> which
> can be sensed and decoded by the sensitive or the elect only, in ##13 and 14.
> (2) A noteworthy new visualization of a concept expressed e.g by Plato
> (Politeia,
> Book 7) through the image of the shadows on the cave wall or in St Paul's
> "through a glass, darkly"(1 Corinthians 13, 12)
>
> Guenter Rebing
>
>
>
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