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Friday, December 15, 2017
 
In LARB, Joanna Walsh on literary gossip.
The philosopher Martin Heidegger thought autobiography had nothing to do with “good” writing. Of Aristotle he said: “He was born, he thought, he died. And all the rest is pure anecdote.” I cannot track down this quote to identify it with its speaker, as the story is itself anecdotal.
GA 18, p. 5: Er war dann und dann geboren, er arbeitete und starb. Die Gestalt des Philosophen oder ähnliches wird hier nicht gegeben werden.
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