28 Questions

Will the future resemble the past? Will we ever close the hermeneutic circle? Does reading generally take us "further in" or "farther out"? What is the ground of being? Where is my horizon right now? Where is home? Is home a place? What is it to do something you couldn't have done before? What (taking it further) is "could have done" at all? What is necessity? What is the relation of necessity to how we ought to be? Does imagination overstep its bounds? Are there bounds to imagination? What are the vaguenesses imagination produces? Is the flickering of words self-enhancing? Does poetry really have a purgative function? When I speak simply, do I speak more closely or more broadly? Are dialectics reinstantiated in every generation? Will we ever wake up from the nightmare of history? How about the nightmare of economics? Or the nightmare of want and care? Can art help? but what is art? Is art simply something done well, as in "the art of living", or "the medical arts"? If art can help, how does it help? Is there something to Plato's warning, that artistically-induced affect manipulates what is irrational in us? Should we rather go with Aristotle? Or should we make our own system (as Blake did)? What about friendship? What is salvation? Is salvation salvation? (28)

Consider: "Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down."