76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p052
·1918-06-30
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English
HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.
This made it necessary to create a balance on the left. That was an important sign from fate. You have to know that the whole group is eight and a half meters high. So this little creature had to be created. This creature gave me the intuition that comes with such things: it has to be created like this.
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