(np) Melville quote in Black Notebooks

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks for providing that.

Jendis does a bit too much, I think. And not all human brows are fine.

2017-03-11 13:47 GMT+01:00 Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

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> Correction:
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> "Wenn ein Mensch in Gedanken versunken ist, gleicht seine schöne Stirn dem
> Osten, wenn der Morgen seine Ruhe stört."
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> Am 11.03.2017 um 13:44 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
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> That's true!
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> And it's a pity, since Heidegger would certainly have enjoyed the
> ambivalence in Melville's original sentence.
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> In his translation from 2001, Matthias Jendis offers this:
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> "Wenn ein Mensch in Gedanken versunken ist, gleicht seine schöne Stirn dem
> Osten, wenn der Morgen seine Gedanken stört."
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> Moby-Dick oder Der Wal, München/Wien: Hanser, p. 543.
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> Am 11.03.2017 um 12:01 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
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> Let me just observe, that the translation misses out on the "troubled":
> "dämmert" doesn't do it justice at all; "aufzieht" would be better although
> "den der Morgen behelligt" seems not bad, too.
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> Am 11. März 2017 um 10:03 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de>:
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>>  > ... One reads, for instance, of Heidegger's meetings with René Char,
>> when they discussed their mutual admiration for Melville ... <
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>> http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/heidegger-in-france/
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>> Am 06.08.2015 um 10:25 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
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>> > Anmerkungen V
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>> > 1948
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>> > "Eine schöne Menschenstirn in Gedanken gleicht dem Osten, in dem der
>> > Morgen dämmert."
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>> > Melville
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>> > (Moby-Dick. Translation: Mutzenbecher/Schnabel. Hamburg 1946, p. 311)
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>> > ["In thought, a fine human brow is like the East when troubled with
>> > the morning." Chapter 79]
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>> > Martin Heidegger: Gesamtausgabe Volume 97, p. 431.
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