re: #135 William Barnett-Lewis

Heh… “Don’t ask me for the meaning, ask me for the use.” Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Fitting, eh? I have to travel half a world from my home to find a woman who’s traveled even farther, all in order for us to walk on unlit land, far from the cities that were our home, to see what all our education prepared us to express imperfectly?

Language is the house of Being, Heidegger says, and he’s right, of course (he’s Heideggeer; how are you gonna argue?) but tonight there was no need for discourse or explanation or any of the expedients and make-shifts of language when we saw deer moving liking clouds of smoke by the dew pond. We froze, she gripped my hand tightly, and nothing more was needed.