74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life
GA 246/1916-03-03/p072
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
One of these gentlemen said afterwards, after I had answered him: Yes, but isn't it an ad absurdum leading of that which people have felt and thought from previous worldviews when humanity today is tearing people apart? Is that not an ad absurdum? Does it not prove that something completely new must enter the world if such absurdities are not to occur?
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