"it is a process of empathy whose origin is the indolence of the heart, acedia, which despairs of grasping and holding the genuine historical image as it flares up briefly"
empathy with the victors of history, those that got the narrative, those that rule:
"whoever has emerged victorious participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate."
"thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. Where thinking suddenly stops in a configuration pregnant with tensions, it gives that configuration a shock, by which it crystalizes into a monad."
yeh - got it. paradox
"as a result of this method the lifework is preserved in this work and at the same time cancelled; in the lifework, the era; and in the era, the entire course of history"
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