Replying to LO29866 --
Andrew,
>> Man ascends through the discovery of the fullness of his own gifts.
>> What he creates along the way are monuments to the stages of his
>> understanding of nature and of self.
>> -- Jacob Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man"
> I shall never forget the moment, Don when on camera Bronowski returning to
> Auschwitz or Belson, stood in a field of deep mud on a grey morning- more
> grey than that summoned up by reading 'Waiting for Godot' -- he fell to
> his knees into the mud and prayed. The programme was called the Ascent of
> Man.
Thanks for the reminder -- the monuments are to the immergences as well as
the emergences.
A thought: one translation of the German "Steiger" is "riser", as in the
vertical face of a stair step (thanks to http://dict.leo.org/ for
augmenting my attenuated memory of the language). Perhaps Bronowski was
referring to "Steigerung"?
> Love and thanks for your recent homily to Love.
A small monument to a stage of my understanding of
Love,
Don
--Don Dwiggins <d.l.dwiggins@computer.org>
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