Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: Peace Corps (1966)

NOTE

This is the transcription of three lectures during a visit in a camp of the Peace Corps, transcribed from the tapes by Frances Huessy, with the following changes and additions:

1. Commonplace phrases as “you see”, “so to speak” are eliminated. Where the speaker corrects himself within the same sentence, only the corrected version is kept.
2. Additions:
   paragraphs,
   chapters with titles scooped from the text,
   Roman numbers for the four parts of a chapter,
   Arabian numbers for the four parts of the parts of a chapter,
   titles for the stories – which are marked by color – which communicate either a personal or historical event,
   sentences are marked in bold print, which are as a sum of thought and to be kept as taken for themselves,
   indices of contents, names, stories, sentences.

The three lectures are extraordinary because they constitute a form of peace after a harsh, breathtaking quarrel preceding the second lecture. So that the whole is what it speaks about.

The quote of the greeting of peace Phil. 4, 7 transcends even all what is said and understood – or misunderstood.

Cologne, March 19, 2017
Eckart Wilkens

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