ABSTRACT
Human speech forms an ark: it thus sets in motion, incessantly, its potential for gathering, sheltering, and safeguarding, by taking up, translating and giving them new impetus the luminous and inchoate solicitings of the world, its murmured appeals, its silences verging on utterance, its urgent insinuations. The ark lets be what it welcomes, and without this there would be no welcome given to the world, or to what dwells in it or is found there, but an arbitrary fantasmagoria, a disorderly carnival of images. And yet, as Heidegger powerfully shows, this letting-be is an incandescent act in which things are liberated into their being and become themselves as they come into the light of speech.
