76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p007
·1918-06-30
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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.
[gap in shorthand] Canton Solothurn in Switzerland was made available, and the construction can now be carried out in Dornach near Basel. The canton of Solothurn really does have a characteristic, dear friends, that the other regions of Europe no longer have for the time being, as far as I know, namely it did not have a building code at that time, and it seems to be changing soon. That means a lot. That was very good, you could build there as you wanted, and that [illegible word in shorthand].
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