Kit, Mondaugen, Plato and Heidegger

[bandwraith at aol.com]

I'm not Keith, by the way. And you probably don't
have enough cash to make me play Keith for
you, but...

Really the whole problem is one of simplifica-
tion. I mean, between epistemology and that
other state which is unsimplified, and which
you might refer to as Being. The antagonism
between the two may have come together with
Heidegger. I can't tell. I can barely understand
him in translation. Translation itself is an
interesting and related problem.

At first, there seems to be no way out, no way
to depart from the infinite regress, except by
some sort of misreading, a mutation of the
truth. With patience and presence of mind,
however, there does seem to be a way out,
and it may be as natural as replacing simpli-
fication with convenience.

Convenience, from the latin- "coming together"
has always been a favorite theme of Pynchon.
The space where Melanie's legs come together,
for example, might be the space where epis-
temology and that other, more analog process,
fuse. Call it the burden of history that a new
generation has to deal with- but it doesn't have
to be a bloody, brutal simplification, like a Vector
rammed into the future.

As he suggests in ATD, it doesn't have to be
so inconvenient.. One generation's fetish
can be a meaningful symbol for the next.
Indeed, it's the work of each generation to find
its meaning in the past, and it's not wrong to
choose by convenience. It's inevitable that
some things are left behind- excluded. What is
not so obvious is that certain essentials are
inexpressible and find their way tacitly.

To be continued at a more convenient time.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 8:20 am
Subject: Re: Kit, Mondaugen, Plato and Heidegger


On 06.02.2011 16:15, Keith wrote:

> When Kit has his electro-mystical moment in
> the mineshaft- his sudden illumination, made
> possible by electricity, made possible by falling
> water coerced into turning a turbine for that
> purpose- it is as if a circuit has been closed in
> his brain.


DIE ZUR SEINSVERLASSENHEIT GEHÖRIGE VERSTELLUNG IHRER SELBST DURCH DIE
MACHENSCHAFT
UND DAS "ERLEBNIS"

1. Die Zusammengehörigkeit von Machenschaft und Erlebnis.
2. Die gemeinsame Wurzel beider.
3. Inwiefern sie die Verstellung der Seinsverlassenheit vollenden.
4. Warum Nietzsches Erkenntnis des NIHILISMUS unbegriffen bleiben 
musste.
5. Was enthüllt - einmal erkannt - die Seinsverlassenheit über das Seyn
selbst?
Der Ursprung der Seinsverlassenheit.
6. Auf welchen Wegen muss die Seinsverlassenheit als die Not erfahren
werden?
7. Inwiefern ist dazu schon der Übergang in die Überwindung notwendig?
(Da-sein)
8. Warum wird erst durch diesen Übergang Hölderlins Dichtung zukünftig
und damit geschichtlich?

Martin Heidegger: Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis). Collected
Works, Volume 65, p. 129,
3. Auflage, Frankfurt a.M. 2003: Vittorio Klostermann.

KFL