-----Original Message----- From: owner-ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk [mailto:owner-ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Rene de Bakker Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:37 PM To: ernst-juenger-l@maillist.ox.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ejlist] DIE SCHERE #44: Notes 1 At 19:39 29-11-99 +0100, you wrote: >DIE SCHERE #44: Notes by Gary Kern > >It seems to me that certain problems of this section clear up >when you read the cited passage in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's THE >IDIOT (part II, chap. XI, a page from the end). FD describes >the light as hard to see through, even though it is a white >night in St. Petersburg. EJ's calls the light "durchlässig," a >word which the dictionary tells me can refer to the >penetrability of a substance or to the transmission of light. >Either it means that under the impact of death one cannot see >through the light or that the dim light is transmitting >information through the dark. EJ might have said which, but he >likes to be cryptic. Gary, I don't know. When light is "durchlaessig", what else can go through than darkness? Just a intuition but I would imagine that the light itself becomes transparent, by which I mean that the phenomenal world becomes transparent - something passes through, becomes apparent behind, the images. This is death, the dissolution, the departure from the phenomenal world. One might also think about it in terms of the Veil of Maya becoming transparent - which term I believe Junger himself makes use of. Ciao, Thomas Friese
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