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PAUL CELAN: THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE MARCH 1, 2002 SEMINAR MATERIALS: PAGE 20 HAUT MAL Unentsühnte, Schlafsüchtige, von den Göttern Befl eckte: deine Zunge ist russig, dein Harn schwarz, wassergallig dein Stuhl du führst, wie ich, unzüchtige Reden, du setzt einen Fuss vor den andern, legst eine Hand auf die andre, schmiegst dich in Ziegenfell, du beheiligst mein Glied. HAUT MAUL Inexpiate she, narcoleptic, by the gods maculate: your tongue is soot, your water black your stool is bile, you mouth, like me, obscenities, you plant one foot in front of the other, place one hand over the other, huddle under goathide, you sanctify my member. (Ian Fairley)
PAUL CELAN: THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE MARCH 1, 2002 SEMINAR MATERIALS: PAGE 21 The golfball growth in the neck: God’s arithmetical brain-teaser for the full-head hairpiece, a place to test the oneof-a-kind chest pain, revealing the future, blithe as a fi ber of steel. Pöggeler relates the poem to Leibniz (who suffered from a calcifi cation or growth in the neck and, as a Baroque-age man, wore a full-head hairpiece): Leibniz brought to an end classical metaphysics and inaugurated the calculative technical-scientifi c thinking of the modern world. The latter, the poem would seem to remind us, cannot reckon (with) death any more than phenomenology can see the back of its head. DAS TAUBENEIGROSSE GEWÄCHS im Nacken: ein Denkspiel, mitrechnerisch-göttlich, für die Allonge- Perücke, ein Ort, zukunftsenthüllend, stahlfi berfroh, zur Erprobung des einmaligen Herzstichs. GROWTH IN THE NECK, big as a pigeon’s egg: a conundrum, mathematical-theological, for the full-bottom periwig, a point, disclosing futurity, steelfi bre-happy, ready to try the once only heartstitch. (Ian Fairley)
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