TV – 3. Program: Diderot [1]
Michael Krüger [2]
Translated by xia23
She said that she would like to watch
the film about Diderot on TV again. she would like to turn off
the sound and just listen to the language of the images:
She said, she can with strong concentration,
Feel the images on the skin. One should, she said,
As Diderot claimed, look at an object
And connect a sound with it, the sound “Tree”.
Then one should pronounce the word “tree”,
Said she,
Diderot claimed, then one should have a tree.
That is what the man, who pretended
To talk to Diderot on TV, said, said she, furthermore
He claimed, we spent our lifetime in
Very short days and very short nights.
Every time, if we closed our eyes, it would be
Night,
He had said, she claimed. But how often this
Happens, he exclaimed! And we were
unaware of all of the short nights,
Because we didn’t pay attention to them; as soon as we
pay attention to them, we would be aware of them.
She said after this TV film,
She would always turn off the sound on TV, then only the eye
guided her!
If we are blind, she thought, and the dog
Which leads us would be our eye. We could not
simultaneously
think, see, hear, taste, and feel, smell,
Diderot
Said, that is what the man said in the film about Diderot on
TV,
She said. We could always only focus about
One thing.
We would stop seeing, as soon as we hear, and
Even though
It was with another sensations. If she could no
longer
See, but if she could hear at the same time, then she
probably
would not Understand. Therefore she would like to watch
the film about Diderot on TV one more time,
To see,
If she understood the film. She asked me,
When Diderot
lived. In 18th century, I said, today
Everything
Is completely different. I said to her, today you can see, on
TV
a man talking about Diderot, and
At the same time,
listen to the man talking about Diderot and explaining, and at the same time you could
Close
your eyes, without missing anything. Since it is on
TV
I explained to her, it is always only at night.
[1]. p. 93. TV -3. Program: Diderot. Kontakt mit der Zeit. Dieter Stöpfgeshoff. Max Hueber Verlag. Germany, 1995.
Diderot. Denis Diderot, a French philosopher and writer (1713-1784). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot
[2]. Michael Krüger. 12/9/1943 - . A German writer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kr%C3%BCger_(writer)
