Chapter One:

De Man poses the question twice within two pages. His answer is that Hölderlin is a witness, and this what Heidegger needs, namely, a witness, someone who has gone out and seen Being and returned show us what he has collected and to talk about it (de Man makes the poet sound like a sci-fi astronaut angel). ................
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