If the pseudo-Delphic tone of this blue-underlined passage sounds too chilling to be a parody, even one constructed by an artist as skilled and philosophically well-read as O’Connor, then your ears are rightly recognizing the authenticity of its authorship: it is actually an excerpt from the German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s 1929 lecture What is Metaphysics?

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