The House of Being
- amolosh
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Churchill sits in "Hitler's chair" amid the ruins of the Führerbunker in Berlin, July 1945
Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell.
—Heidegger, "Letter on 'Humanism'" (1949)
How I agree with what the wise old villain meant!
He rattles on about the "quiet power" of the possible,
But has already said it all—and only four years since April 30 '45.
He had, after all, come back from Syracuse alive,
As did Plato, that old slave. The bow is fashioned as the wood is bent.
Epigraph: Translated by Frank A. Capuzzi in Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Heidegger elaborates: "Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home."
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