Document Type
Essay
Description
Now it is Fire. Winds began our unfinished, prior conversation1 We had to explore those unforgotten experiences. Your long search did not start with your time in Bordeaux nor your memory of that Northeaster welcoming you there and then opening your hymn, Remembrance / Andenken. I had started reading your earlier song of praise, The Rhine / Der Rhein, with great care. After reading Andenken once, preparing for a conversation with you about The Rhein, pursuing anything else was not possible before talking with you about your visit to Bordeaux rivers and vineyards. Expecting, finally, to return to Der Rhein, a preparatory reading of Der Ister / Donau / Danube led me here. A new path that must be followed. We begin, here, now, with fire, and wind and rivers / water. Or, do we begin with the four ancient Greek primal elements of what is / of Being — air, fire, water and earth? As with Andenken, we begin reading Der Ister and my translation.
Publication Date
2024
Publisher
Charles Taylor
City
Dayton
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Philosophy
Repository Citation
Taylor , C. S. (2024). X: Fragments of Being My Conversations with Hölderlin On Der Ister Anaximander’s Apeiron Expedition to Svalbard Kant’s Sublime. Dayton, OH: Charles Taylor.
