Performing that sensation of falling in meaning, or present-ing the gift of time.

Gordon subscribes to Heidegger's tenet that there is no such thing as the present, only the past and the future. An example of this is Feature Film, in which on two opposing screens we watch a conductor directing the soundtrack for Hitchcock's Vertigo. But that is all we see. No orchestra and certainly no film. Gradually, as the music increases in intensity, anyone who has seen the film will start to conjure images. So is this any less real than actually watching the film?

And if you're not familiar with the film, or forgot it? And what about what everyone's forgotten.

The being is known to us--but Being? Are we not seized with vertigo when we try to determine such a thing, even if we should comprehend it properly?

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