III. Speech as a Formed Gesture

GA 282/1924-09-07/p007 ·1924-09-07 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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The proper aim and purpose of prose is to bring back thought into speech. For thought has become quite detached from speech.

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