The points by Annelies were very helpful. I see this as connecting to a pre-language part of the brain, the old primitive nature, direct thoughts, flow ... all of this we are barely yet understand as our perceptions of ourselves and reality is very much influenced by the categorizations and flaws in our language. It aids in large, complex projects but it creates confusion in us because it's another layer in us with strange representation and social meaning, yet covering over deeper and more natural, intuitive reflective states, etc.
Blanchot like doestevesky experience similar experience of a firing squad that had a tremendous effect on his mind, doestevesky reacted opposite to Blanchot.
same here :p check out their intro & reading list blogs.law.columbia.edu/nietzsche1313/3-13/ (papers on the right under "posts") blogs.law.columbia.edu/nietzsche1313/bibliography-3/
We forget how the the generations that experienced 2 world wars and the Spanish flu after, we can't relate too these experiences, language can't express the horror these generations had. Also you can't use definitions to describe the horrorrs of the holocaust or the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These philosophical people struggle to use definitions without the use of the written word or spoken.
