of running away from it, as we have just emphasized.1 But the makingpresent which 'leaps away' in curiosity is so little devoted to the 'thing' it is curious about, that when it obtains sight of anything it already looks away to what is coming next. The making-present which 'arises or leaps away' from the awaiting of a definite possibility which one has taken hold of, makes possible ontologically that not-tarrying which is distinctive of curiosity. The making-present does not 'leap away' from the awaiting in such a manner, as it were, that it detaches itselffrom that awaiting and abandons it to itself (if we understand this ontically). This 'leaping-away' is rather an ecstatical modification of awaiting, and of such a kind that the awaiting leaps after the making-present.2 The awaiting gives itself up, as it were; nor does it any longer let any inauthentic possibilities of concern come towards it from that with which it concerns. itself, unless these are possibilities only for a making-present which is not held on to. When the awaiting is ecstatically modified by the making-present which leaps away, so that it becomes an awaiting which leaps after, this modification is the existential-temporal condition for the possibility of distraction.
Through the awaiting which leaps after, on the other hand, the making-present is abandoned more and more to itself. It makes present for the sake of the Present. It thus entangles itself in itself, so that the distracted not-tarrying becomes never-dwelling-anywhere. This latter mode of the Present is the counter-phenomenon at the opposite extreme from the moment of vision. In never dwelling anywhere, Being-there is everywhere and nowhere. The moment of vision, however, brings existence into the Situation and discloses the authentic 'there'.
The more inauthentically the Present is-that is, the more making-present comes towards 'itself'-the more it flees in the face of a definite potentiality-for-Being and closes it off; but in that case, all the less can the future come back to the entity which has been thrown. In the 'leaping-away' of the Present, one also forgets increasingly. The fact that curiosity always holds by what is coming next, and has forgotten what has gone
1 'Die Gegenwart "entspringt" dem zugehörigen Gewärtigen in dem betonten Sinne des Entlaufens.' While the verb 'entspringen' can mean 'arise from' or 'spring from', as it usually does in this work, it can also mean 'run away from' or 'escape from', as Heidegger says it does here. We shall accordingly translate it in this context by the more literal 'leap away' or occasionally by 'arise or leap away'. The point of this passage will perhaps be somewhat plainer if one keeps in mind that when Heidegger speaks of the 'Present' ('Gegenwart') or 'making-present' ('Gegenwärtigen') as 'leaping away', he is using these nouns in the more literal sense of 'waiting towards'. Thus in one's 'present' curiosity, one 'leaps away' from what one has been 'awaiting', and does so by 'waiting for' something different.
2 '... dass dieses dem Gegenwärtigen nachspringt.' The idea seems to be that when curiosity 'makes present' new possibilities, the current awaiting is re-directed towards these instead of towards the possibilities which have been awaited hitherto.