"Anxiety reveals the nothing.
We “hover” in anxiety. More precisely, anxiety leaves us hanging because it induces the slipping away of beings as a whole. This implies that we ourselves - we who are in being - in the midst of beings slip away from ourselves. At bottom therefore it is not as though “you” or “I” feel ill at ease; rather it is this way for some ”one.” In the altogether unsettling experience of this hovering where there is nothing to hold onto, pure Dasein [human existence] is all that is still there." Martin Heidegger, Was ist Metaphysik (What is Metaphysics?) (via whyexistence)
Toward the Creative Nothing: Cioran on Samuel Beckett:
September 1968.
“The other day I noticed Beckett along one of the footpaths in the Luxembourg Gardens, reading a newspaper in a way that reminded me of one of his characters. He was seated in a chair, lost in thought, as he usually is. He looked rather unwell. I didn’t dare approach him. What…
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