NOTES ON KIERKEGAARD FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM

It's settled then I will never be a philosopher I get far too distracted here are some more lines that needed to be put in a poem

1. One does not dare look at the other at all for fear
of discovering that he does not have proper eyes
but glass eyes and hair made from a floor mat

2. Like the customs clerk who,
in the belief that his business was merely to write,
wrote what he himself could not read

3. It is like wanting to paint Mars
in the armor
that makes him invisible

4. But to be a lover, a hero, etc.
is reserved specifically for subjectivity,
because objectively one does not become that

5. BEHOLD
a. Behold, erotic love is a qualification of subjectivity,
and yet lovers are very rare

6. BY KILLING ME
a. Thus abstract thinking helps me with my immortality by killing me
as a particular existing individual
and then making me immortal
and therefore helps somewhat as in
Holberg the doctor took the patient's life
with his medicine
but also drove out the fever.

7. SOME REFERENCES TO THE MOON
a. It can only occur...
by tying a ribbon around the little finger
and throwing it away in some remote place
when the moon is full...
b. Speculative thought must first explain
how a particular existing subject
relates himself to the knowledge of mediaton,
what he is at the moment,
whether, for example,
he is not at that very moment
rather absentminded,
and where he is,
whether he is not on the moon

8. AT THIS POINT MY INTROSPECTION WAS INTERRUPTED BECAUSE MY CIGAR WAS FINISHED AND A NEW ONE HAD TO BE LIT. [!]

9. ASTRONOMY OR
We shall stop with these few examples.
Examples I have aplenty; I can keep on as long as need be;
I have enough for a lifetime and therefore do not need
to proceed
to astronomy or veterinary science.

- SK, mediated by CDL