76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p012
·1918-06-30
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English
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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.
You have to look at the form itself in such a way - I'll use a trivial comparison, but I think it expresses the matter well - that it is not there for its own sake and yet is completely appropriate to the matter. The form is there for what is to happen in it. What is performed, spoken and listened to should be expressed in the forms. Hence the idea of building, if I may express myself in southern German, a Gugelhupf, a cake tin. With cake pots, it is also important that the cake form determines the shape. The structure is also intended as a cake tin. It's what's inside that counts. Just as, when you have a cake pan, you don't initially focus on the pan, but on the cake inside it.
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