76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p019
·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.
If we then take the concrete substructure, we will find that everything that is taken out of the concrete according to the sketches or the architecture is also shaped in such a way that we can see it: This is the substructure - it already comes out in the forms - this is the substructure. What emerges from the earth rises up in concrete. So that you have to develop the feeling as if coarse elemental beings growing out of the earth form themselves into shapes and these shapes are such that they support the whole, but also move the whole into its place. So that is the substructure.
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