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The play of the dancer with the
light, airy stream, as if with a gaseous
veil
is -- now incomprehensible to us.
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And the combinations
of sounds, composing,
pouring out, shriveling up, weighed down the
dialects; glossaries of sound-images, burdening our
memory, no longer stare into our souls with their
previous clear gesture; so: the clarity of a
sound's meaning is -- in the mental ability to view
the dances of the dancer with the veil -- as a
stream
of air; the darkness of
sound meaning is -- in the glossaries, from which
humanity has constructed the temples of
dialects.
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The combination of the high "i"
with the low "u" (the
foreign "u") does not
signify for us -- combination,
confluence, we do not comprehend that: the
sound "W" is the sound "U", in "i" there is an "n":
iun-iuw-iun-(go)-iuv
(enes) -- runs to us throughout history; and
signifies: "confluence" and
"youthfulness" we do not comprehend the ancient
"W", pronounced near the throat; we do not
comprehend, how only then the sound "V" arises as
it flies across to the lips. The expression of this
flight of air into the throat (gullet) is Hah; from
which there is "ah" -- wonderment, intoxication by
the air; "ha" is -- giving forth, an emanation: of
air, of the heat of the soul; and the sound
"Hauch"
expresses in the signification of the sense -- the
signification of the sound. The semi-vowel "h"
(rather "a" with aspiration) is -- the first
wafting of the air of sound from the heat, out of
the throat.
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The formation
of the spirants is -- the formation of burning
mists of gas: of the very delicate matter of
sounds; in "w," "v," "r," "h" and "s" we have a
disintegration into warmth "w", energy (r), cold
air (v) and warm air (h), into light and fire ("s"
and "r"); in the sonant row u-w-r-l-n occurs -- the
formation: of liquids from out of the air; l-m-n
are -- distinctly liquidy; the three plosives --
g-d-b are -- almost firm: "b" is -- viscous, "d" is
-- sonorous, "g" is -- porous-crumbly; k-t-p (a row
of voiceless, unvoiced plosives) are -- firm; I
might even say, they are -- rocky, if "p" were not
for us a symbol of firm animality, "t" is -- plant
thread;
"k" is -- a rocky, mineral-lifeless sound; here are
the three kingdoms: of animals ("p," "b"), of
plants ("t," "d"), of crystals ("k") and of
amorphous earths ("g").
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