Reading Heidegger....Well, reading Wrathall's Translation,

Though still shuddering away in aversive horror from the oncosis of Heidegger's actual utterance, I'm finding that I concur with everything that Wrathall says Heidegger said.  With some reservations (two so far):  (1) I am not entirely persuaded that locality is the only fundamental characteristic of isness; and (2) theoretically, as an essentialist, atomic American Transcendentalist, and experientially, as the gay outsider, and lifelong tester and defier of the world's normative limits, I don't attach the same importance or acknowledge the same finality to the world's limitations of my "authenticity."  I would, for example, have found it much easier not to be a Nazi than Heidegger did.