76. About the Photographs of the Construction
GA 246/1918-06-30/p063
·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 photograph gives the profile of the head of the central figure. The more [one looks down at the] figure, the more it becomes a mere gesture. Nothing realistic has been expressed with bones, no feet. It's all about the spiritual gesture the further down you go. - Perhaps we could now reverse the slide.
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