basis of Dasein's temporality? The function of temporality as the foundation for Dasein's spatiality will be indicated briefly, but no more than is necessary for our later discussions of the ontological meaning of the 'coupling together' of space and time. To Dasein's making room for itself belongs the self-directive discovery of something like a region. By this expression what we have in mind in the first instance is the "whither" for the possible belonging-somewhere of equipment which is ready-to-hand environmentally and which can be placed. Whenever one comes across equipment, handles it, or moves it around or out of the way, some region has already been discovered. Concernful Being-in-the-world is directional—self-directive. Belonging-somewhere has an essential relationship to involvement. It always Determines itself factically in terms of the involvement-context of the equipment with which one concerns oneself. Relationships of involvement are intelligible only within the horizon of a world that has been disclosed. Their horizonal character, moreover, is what first makes possible the specific horizon of the "whither" of belonging-somewhere regionally. The self-directive discovery of a region is grounded in an ecstatically retentive awaiting of the "hither" and "thither" that are possible. Making room for oneself is a directional awaiting of a region, and as such it is equiprimordially a bringing-close [369] (de-severing*) of the ready-to-hand and present-at-hand. Out of the region that has been discovered beforehand, concern comes back deseverantly to that which is closest. Both bringing-close and the estimating and measurement of distances within that which has been de-severed and is present-at-hand within-the-world, are grounded in a making-present belonging to the unity of that temporality in which directionality too becomes possible.
Because Dasein as temporality is ecstatico-horizonal in its Being, it can take along with it a space for which it has made room, and it can do so factically and constantly. With regard to that space which it has ecstatically taken in, the "here" of its current factical situation [Lage bzw. Situation] never signifies a position in space, but signifies rather the leeway of the range of that equipmental totality with which it is most closely concerned—a leeway which has been opened up for it in directionality and de-severance.
Bringing-close makes possible the kind of handling and Being-busy which is 'absorbed in the thing one is handling' ["in der Sache aufgehende"]; and in such bringing-close, the essential structure of care—falling—makes itself known. In falling, and therefore also in the bringing-close which is founded 'in the present', the forgetting which awaits, leaps after the Present ; this is what is distinctive in the existential-temporal