Any There disappears in a side-by-side of events, sensations and information that has no gaps. Everything is Here.

has propelled us to ‘escape velocity’, with the result that we have flown free of the referential sphere of the real end of history.

The paradox, rather, is that everything makes up the present at the same time, that everything has the opportunity, even must have the opportunity, of becoming part of the present. The present shortens and loses all duration; its time-frame diminishes more and more. At the same time, everything pushes into the present.

Narration requires distinction and selection.

Time rushes off [stürzt fort], even is in precipitous haste [überstürzt sich], in order to compensate for an essential lack of being. In this, however, it is not successful, because acceleration by itself does not produce any hold. On the contrary, it only makes the existing lack of being more pungent.

It is, so to speak, a gyrating meaning which deepens into being.

The formation of metaphor counteracts the atomization of being.

As soon as one looks deeper into being one recognizes that all things are interconnected, that even the least of them communicates with a whole world.

Only in lingering contemplation, even an ascetic restraint, do things unveil their beauty, their fragrant essence. It consists of temporal sedimentations emitting a phosphorescent glow.