Heidegger

from the New York Times, August 14, A12:

“It’s easier to keep a place clean than to clean it,” said an Israeli
minister who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Aside from the sheer brilliance of the idea, the almost blinding
light of the imaginative metaphor in which the idea is cast, and the
political self control required to maintain the anonymity of
authorship, there is a personal dimension to this great
rhetorical-ontological moment which I hope you don’t mind if I share
with you. Many years ago, when I was a child living in my mother’s
home ( I will never forget this), she observed to me one day, in
passing (as she often did), “Allen. I know this won’t mean anything
to you now, but someday, when I am long gone, you will understand the
wisdom of it. It’s something I’ve learned from my years of
experience living with four men (my father, me, and my two brothers):
“It’s easier to keep a place clean than to clean it.”

Regards,

Allen (more than moved, overwhelmed, at the confluence of kairotic
moments in time)

Posted on Monday, August 14th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
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