76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p020
·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.
The columns then rise above it and the architrave arches above the columns and the dome vault above it. [The two domes, which are actually joined together in a way that domes have never been joined together before, then arch over it. Here is the gate, the domes are interlocked, which is particularly important because two domes interlocked like this have never been made before. Even today, this was a technical feat that could only be accomplished because it was possible to translate the construction idea into mechanics along the path of our cooperation. There were all kinds of forces that had to be overcome. Because I was able to work with [illegible word in shorthand], it was only possible to solve this problem of joining these two domes together.
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