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Rosenstock-Huessy finds himself "hurt, swayed, shaken, elated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted," and incapable of refraining from speech: "To write a book is no luxury. It is a means of survival."

Behind Rosenstock-Huessy stands Hamann, and behind Hamann is Elihu of the book of Job, whose words Hamann uses as the epigram for his Aesthetica in Nuce: "Behold my heart is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins, it is ready to burst. I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer."

posted by Peter J. Leithart on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 02:52 PM

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