Replying to LO29556 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>Dear At and LO,
>
>I have lost the source, for Martin Heidegger's statement
>that, 'poetry' (human creativity) enables mankind to 'dwell'
>in the 'world'. If anyone has the citation I would be glad
>to receive it from them...I have apparently deleted it from
>my own files.
Greetings dear Andrew,
Sorry, i cannot help.
When i wrote that i prefer "dwell" to "live" when writing "knowledge
dwells within the mind", i was wondering whether this "dwell" is in any
way related to the Afrikaans "dwaal". It has several meanings:- to rove
(wander, roam), to delay or to err!
Both dwell and "dwaal" come from the Saxon word "dwelan" (to err). But now
for two cherries on the cake -- so comes also the word dull! And in
Afrikaans we have the word "dol"=mad also coming from "dwelan". It seems
that "knowledge dwelling within the mind" can make one mad="dol". But we
also have in Afrikaans the word "dolgelukkig" where "gelukkig"=happy. This
paradoxal conjunction mad+happy means transcending the order happy =>
happier => happiest => ...... (Terje, its another example of an entropy
producing construction.)
Andrew, may you and fellow learners be mad+happy for the rest of the year.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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