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Document Type
Essay
Description
Lieblicher Cousin Holz / Beloved cousin Holz, welcome once again to my Gehäus! 1 2Please make yourself comfortable on this bench beside me. Remembered conversations bring us back here. New questions to share. Neither of us has a guess where we will ramble during the adventure. Thinking about your beloved Ister / Donau / Danube flowing through the Schwarzwald / Black Forest we found our way, unexpectedly, to Kant’s Erhabene / Sublime. Only after making a visit north of Norway to Svalbard. Der Ister, begins with you calling for daylight allowing you to carefully, reverently observe what will present itself to you. What is placed in front of us is not always easily grasped. In that forest-theater you hoped to hear a call from the forest, inviting you to remain a dweller right there. Having left there twice you returned twice, abruptly, back to your home. The forest called you back home. We sit here now in my Gehäus — an old poetic word for a place, a home calling for thinkers to dwell together. Gehäus also has connections to a theater as I noted in Hieronymus’ Bench. We are called to dwell where we may be able to learn through what presents itself to us.
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
Charles Taylor
City
Dayton
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Nonfiction | Philosophy
Repository Citation
Taylor , C. S. (2025). XI: Dwelling Writing Thinking: Traces of Being Songs of Elduvík Hölderlin’s “In lovely blue…” Remembrance The Ister. Dayton, OH: Charles Taylor.
