III. Speech as a Formed Gesture

GA 282/1924-09-07/p021 ·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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It can, you see, be easily done; and when you have carried it out for a whole line of verse, you have walked the hexameter. It is there in your stepping in its true form: plant the foot down, *o, two steps, e, e; o, e, e; o, e, e; o, e, e.* You have taken your stepping into your speaking; the form of your stepping is in your speaking.

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