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And even if no material creature is active by himself, as Jean-Jaques already recognized, he still continues right away to look at it as poetical ambiguity - the understanding directed towards action in relation to a possible subject, because the sincere man how he imagines him is a fighter who prefers to fight naked. The masks and parts also - discretion, make-believe and imagination - are only instruments of power. From a 'but it is me' to a 'je suis un autre' there is a veil thin gilded foil of artistic command of technics as means, medium - not end in itself.

And technics according to the fresh Max (G. is playing here with the name of the author Max Frisch, 'frisch' as an adjective meaning 'fresh'; comment by the translator) is a trick to compose ,the world that way so we won't experience it'. What a deeply sensed view on life that is: 'relief, change the despair. the car runs on its own'!  And they circle and circle in circles: in travelling circles.
Vertical tops, telesope cones: perceptions of change in the tendency for longitude. Signals for correction for diagonal and side and height: the auto(author) pilot as operator in the invisible visible and the senses and sensual (sense lights). There are no ghosts in pictures - only spirit, which is a rescuing  and a revealing one that oscillates between painful "IchundWelt" (me and the world) and trance-like euphorical experience of 'der ganze Wahnsinn auch ohne mich und Ich' (the whole craziness also without me and I). Gottfried Benn speaks peacefully from the height of healing spririt (lurking):
 
,Tauchen musst du können, musst du lernen,
einmal ist es Glück und einmal Schmach,
gib nicht auf, du darfst dich nicht entfernen,
wenn der Stunde es an Licht gebrach. '

("you have to know how to dive, you have to learn,
once it is luck once it is disgrace,
do not give up, you should not remove yourself
when the hour is lacking light")
 
From this short 'inbetween', INTER-ESSE (in German the letters for  'inter esse' when one word - 'Interesse' - mean 'interest') actually, so the 'inbetween' I agree to the sign/signed having a last bit of self-guiding drive with  creative self-activity.
Just as it is possibly to be  experienced these days in a cheerful humourous de-limiting of finances and game, of fever and crazinessfor the game with the football. Once again king football:
Commonly its birthyear is said to be 1863. But already Shakespeare warned about the brutality of the game: "Am I so round with you as you with me,That like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither: If I last in this service, you must case me in leather." ***
And regardless of any danger of injury a well-known to us medical person of regiment (we would call it team physician today) born 1759 said:

,Wort gehalten wird in jenen Räumen
jenem schönen gläubigen Gefühl.
Wage du zu irren und zu träumen.
 Hoher Sinn geht oft mit kindschem Spiel.'

("one's word is kept in those rooms
to that beautiful believing feeling.
Dare you to be confused and to dream.
High reason often goes with childish game.)

And in this connection Plato introduces  the term of the "saintly shyness" amongst others.
This variant then, antique between Agon and Illings, is the one in movement and processuality of mutual fight of in each other entailed temperaments and powers of Apollo and Dionysos in Nietzsche's sense.
Strength, memory and wealth of ideas, hence Agon, against or in rivalry to rotation and movement of fall, which in themselves are supposed to reach an organical  state of confusion and to go into raptures - extasis - with the aim to get to a reflective self by comprehending  and understanding of necessary andsocial dependabilities. Hence like in the game.
Social competence  of steering thus becomes an artistical and philosophical view via the dialictics of the de-steering and - hopefully- always again also an action.

And here actually should follow a pleading of theoperative art in Sergej Tretjakovs's sense , but I will spare you this.

Thankyou for listening.


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*Gunnar F.Gerlach.: Relief - change the despair
12 artists in the institution
Editor: Uwe Schloen
published by Huck-Finn-Amsterdam-Hamburg 2005

*** W. Shakespeare: The comedy of errors, act 2, scene1, Dromio (Added by site-owner.

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