"I don't want to hear it," said R. "It's of no account."
“But it’s always been taken by the cognoscenti as a key,” replied K. “Even by the moderns. How can we now leave it be?”
“Yes, two hundred plus years of that quest,” R said with a knowing smile, betraying just a touch of condescension. “And to what end?”
“You expect me to say, a making-clear what is not, nicht wahr?" K spit back. "But it's patience, not clarity, you will need at the gate.”*******************
Compare Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, Riverhead, 1994, 9, quoting literary critic Kevin Hart. 'Western culture takes its lexicon of intelligibility from Greek philosophy, and all our talk of life and death, of form and design, is marked by relations with that tradition.'
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