and withdraws its guard in . the luminous flame of appearance. The meditations that for a long time occupied me with regards to ἀλήθεια, and the relationship between unconcealment and concealment have found, thanks to the sojourn in Delos, the desired confirmation. What appeared to have been only an imaginary conceptualization was fulfilled, it became full of presence, the presence of that clear [gelichtet] that had once granted to the Greeks this coming-to-presence.
Only through the experience of Delos did the journey to Greece become a sojourn, cleared [gelichteten] dwelling by that which Ἀλήθεια is. Delos itself is that field of the unconcealed hiddenness that accords sojourn: first to φύσις, to the pure and self-sheltered rise of mountains and islands, sky and sea, plants and animals, the rise where each thing appears in its strict type but also in its gently suspended form. In the sojourn granted by ἀλήθεια the ἔργον appears as well: everything that is made and built by human work. In this granted sojourn, the mortals themselves appear and precisely as those who respond to the unconcealed, for they bring to their proper
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