Abstract
In rare moments, usually after spending a long time alone, I am struck, arrested, the first time I hear someone speak. Something strange has just transpired. It is not necessarily what was just said or how I am supposed to reply?it is simply that something has been said, that I understood it, that I am able to and will reply, and that all this has passed without the bat of an eyelash. Rare moments indeed, these experiences stop me in my tracks (or rather, in my speech), and I relish their un-ordinariness. Even stranger are attempts to articulate such experiences, to convey to even the most sympathetic of listeners what I have just undergone. It is this kind of experience that leads me to the opening of Heidegger's 1959 essay The Way to Language:
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