19 475 the sensual world, which would happen one day : the events in the material world signalling the advent of that spiritual Exodus to come could have no idea as to their own real meaning, of which they were only the harbingers . For this higher meaning does not dirty its hands with some fleshly, literal pretence of a meaning but walks high above them and looks down with contempt, disguised as compassionate sadness, upon the heads of all those who simply live their lot, and not its sublime meaning . Odysseus does not address any questions to Tantalus or Sisyphus either, not a word . He has nothing to learn from them . All the meaning in the world, with all its belongings packed up, has set out for the Promised Land, leaving behind it forever the Egypt, in which the meaning of things is reduced to doing only forced labour in the service of things . The Vienna monument, with its back turned on the universe without, collects and sucks into its black hole all the meaning in the very sam...
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