Heidegger

Allen spake this recently:

> I was putting a DVD in place to watch it, one I’ve been wanting see
> again for quite a while. I was struck by how long I’ve been without
> this and other pleasures of the present, feeling the melancholy of
> the comparatively short time left to me to enjoy these pleasures(the
> DVD player being one of the very minor ones, but one that will stand
> in for others of a more personal sort) when came this thought:
>
> This is really the only time I’ve ever lived and for all intents and
> purposes, it lasts forever.

Allen, for some intents and purposes (of this speech), what you say reminds
me of Nietzsche (or at least, the Nietzschean strand in Heidegger’s
thinking), of amor fati, of a highly active acceptance of be-ing (as both
beings-as-a-whole and as the be-ing of your being), the thanks of
thinking… and the accomodation of the eternal in the moment (augenblick)
that sits nicely with Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Have you
thrown off that infernal monkey (in Zarathustra)? How can anything, any
thing, have been any different (properly asked and affirmed), leads neatly
to an eternal embracing of the moment as one that is for ever in its
momentness (encompassing all intents and purposes). Apart from the odd (and
wonderful and welcome) insight, this embrace is a tricky business and poses
the questions of the “short time left”, the not-forever, the cleavage in the
very structurings of time in the moment, of the presencing of beings (as and
how and when they are). But never mind: this is the time of your (our) life.

regards

michaelP (also momentarily with the melancholics)

Posted on Sunday, August 19th, 2007 at 4:45 am
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