my doctor tells me
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— Philip Baker wrote:
> — ME scribed
>> A raft from a shipwreck is drifting without anchor and
>> without direction on the high seas. To have sense is to
>> take a direction.
>
> I’ve always thought that the raft of the Medusa is a great metaphor for
> human life in general.
The Medusa itself may be drifting, but the shipwrecked have spotted a
ship on the horizon.
“[A]s long as they only drift in the wind of a decision that comes
from afar, thinking in the crossing dare not eschew the dearth of
preparatory differentiations and elucidations. Only the chill of the
boldness of thinking and the night of errancy of questioning lend
glow and light to the fire of beyng.”
CtP, S 259 {paraphrasing, the (not here) translated}
