Dear Michael,
Thanks for the quote from _Nietzsche_, that whole section is
interesting; the thoughts on gods and demigods connects up well with
the roughly contemporaneous work on Hoelderlin ("Remembrance of the
Poet" in EB), but the antenna metaphor reminds me more of "What Are
Poets For?" The bits on Socrates maintaining himself in the
draft--and that "anyone who begins to write out of thoughtfulness
must inevitably be like those people who run to seek refuge from any
draft too strong for them. ...all great thinkers...had to be such
fugitives." (WCT 17/WHD 52)--certainly these passages call for
further thought. (The latter also remind me of the Heideggerian
sigetics and the French poet (writer of writing) Edmond Jabes, who
has had some influence on Derrida.)
Iain
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Thanks for the quote from _Nietzsche_, that whole section is
interesting; the thoughts on gods and demigods connects up well with
the roughly contemporaneous work on Hoelderlin ("Remembrance of the
Poet" in EB), but the antenna metaphor reminds me more of "What Are
Poets For?" The bits on Socrates maintaining himself in the
draft--and that "anyone who begins to write out of thoughtfulness
must inevitably be like those people who run to seek refuge from any
draft too strong for them. ...all great thinkers...had to be such
fugitives." (WCT 17/WHD 52)--certainly these passages call for
further thought. (The latter also remind me of the Heideggerian
sigetics and the French poet (writer of writing) Edmond Jabes, who
has had some influence on Derrida.)
Iain
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