Leaving you and not quite leaving you

pp. 123-145

in: Raymond Tallis, A conversation with Martin Heidegger, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

Upon hearing this, Heidegger became reserved. Was this reserve a way of expressing anger about so much stupidity? ‘Yes, but only if you think it is fun to live up here and sit alone behind this desk in winter, when the timber creaks in the storm and the stove fails to warm up the room and loneliness creeps through every hole!’61