[Juenger-list] DIE SCHERE #53: Text, rough translation, notes

[rcalvom@ctv.es rcalvom@ctv.es]

Dear Junguerites 

> [2] This is an allusion to an image found elsewhere in EJ's writings in more 
> graphic detail. Modern humanity, once embarked on the train of scientific and 
> technological progress, finds itself racing towards the abyss of a final 
> catastrophe. Even for those few who have not only realized the danger but are 
> willing to start a new life style it would be suicide to try to get off the 
> speeding train whose wheels are getting red hot. 

It seems that EJ took parts of this imaginery from A. Kubin 
pictures, specially from "The Man (Der Mensch?(sic:-))" and "Geist 
des Motorrades". Jose Luis Molinonuevo, the best EJ scholar of 
Spain, have said beatiful things on this exchange in his mini-essay:
"Writing with the eyes: Juenger in the nihilistic pictorical texts of 
Kubin", published in "Along with Junger" , a compilation of 
conferences (Junto a Junger, Cruce Ediciones, 1996) 

Best regards
Roberto