posted a translation of Adorno’s letter to Scholem on his reactions to reading the Zohar—tying in Gnosis, Benjamin, Kafka, and yes an extended comparison between reading the Zohar for a sense of its “topology” & the search for goat-antelopes over mountainous terrain
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link: https://open.substack.com/pub/jamescrane/p/translationdialectic-of-decay-adornos?r=nfggr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
http://fretmarks.blogspot.com/2006/03/reading-poetry-on-her-sickbed.html