43. Blood is a Very Special Fluid
GA 68b/1907-01-11/p029
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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: «Da keine professionellen Stenogramme vorliegen, handelt es sich oftmals um notizenhaft festgehaltene Zusammenfassungen oder Berichte.» (Since no professional shorthand transcripts exist, these are often summaries or reports kept in the form of notes.). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 68b). The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
What primarily determines a person must have an effect on his blood. What you say to a person will only make an impression if his blood is stirred. You must not have access to his intellect or to his nervous system; you must make his blood pulsate, then you will touch his I, for the blood is precisely its instrument.
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