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After Reading Stein a Certain Truth Comes Out

Commonweal,  April 22, 2005  by Katharine Jager

This is how it's done. You slow
down and listen, I mean really
listen to the sentence, to what it is
the other mouth is saying. You must read
aloud, and mutter, over and
over until the sense reveals itself.

In the paper's margin a better teacher's
written: it is not self but other, here,
to which you are referring. It's the being
heard, and so completely, by another that creates
the panic, then, the large
responsibility. It's the same with loving, you

must force yourself to sit still,
still the chatter babbling
in you, you must force your face toward
the other. It is an active matter.
You slow yourself and then you listen.
You listen well and sometimes you can hear.

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