(np) The Encounter

[Mark Kohut]

Thank you so much for this, Kai.....I can begin to see why
this is an intellectual milestone of post-war Europe.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> http://clocktower.org/show/the-encounter
>
> The Soundwalk Collective's The Encounter features recordings from the
> Schwarzwald, Germany in 2010. In 1967, Paul Celan visited Martin Heidegger
> in Todtnauberg, located in the Black Forest where the philosopher worked.
> The subsequent poem written from this meeting, "Todtnauberg", became an
> intellectual milestone of post-war Europe. Jean Luc Nancy thinks about this
> meeting, but instead of looking for conclusions, he leaves his mind free to
> think, free to answer, free to be lost maybe. It is not only a speech but
> also a voice of restless resonance.
>
> Originally aired 5/6/13
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> TODTNAUBERG                                     TODTNAUBERG
>
>
> Arnika, Augentrost, der			Arnica, eyebright, the
> Trunk aus dem Brunnen mit dem	        draft from the well with the
> Sternwürfel drauf,			star-die on top,
>
> in der					in the
> Hütte,					cabin,
>
> die in das Buch				written in the book
> - wessen Namen nahms auf		- whose name did it record
> vor dem meinen? -			before mine - ?
> die in dies Buch			in this book
> geschriebene Zeile von			the line about
> einer Hoffnung, heute,			a hope, today,
> auf eines Denkenden			for a thinker's
> kommendes				word
> Wort					to come,
> im Herzen,				in the heart,
>
> Waldwasen, uneingeebnet,		forest sward, unleveled,
> Orchis und Orchis, einzeln,		orchis and orchis, singly,
>
> Krudes, später, im Fahren		crudeness, later, while driving,
> deutlich,				clearly,
>
> der uns fährt, der Mensch,		he who drives us, the man,
> der's mit anhört,			he who also hears it,
>
> die halb-				the half-
> beschrittenen Knüppel-			trod log-
> pfade im Hochmoor,			trails on the highmoor,
>
> Feuchtes,				humidity,
> viel.					much.
>
>
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