again we are not in the open-region, so far as we have not yet let ourselves be involved in it itself as the open-region.
SCIENTIST: Which happens, however, in waiting.
GUIDE: As you have already said, in waiting we are released from the transcendental relation to the horizon.
SCIENTIST: This being-released-from is the first moment of releasement, but not, as it seems to me, releasement in its primary sense.
SCHOLAR: Why not?
GUIDE: Because releasement in the sense of being-released-from can only occur if the being released from horizonal transcendence is already let into proper releasement.47
SCHOLAR: But what is this? Insofar as proper releasement is supposed to be the befitting [122] relationship to the open-region, and if such a relationship determines itself purely from that to which it relates itself, then proper releasement must rest in the open-region, and must have received from it the movement toward it.
GUIDE: Releasement comes from the open-region, because releasement properly consists in the human remaining released to the open-region, and doing so by means of the open-region. The human is released to it in his essence, insofar as he originally belongs to the open-region. He belongs to it, insofar as he is inceptually a-propriated to the open-region, and indeed by the open-region itself.
SCHOLAR: In fact, waiting upon something—provided this is an essential, and that means an all-decisive, waiting—is also based in the fact that we belong to that upon which we wait.
GUIDE: Out of the experience of waiting, and indeed out of the experience of waiting upon the self-opening of the open-region, and in relation to such waiting, this waiting was spoken of, addressed [angesprochen], as releasement.
SCHOLAR: This is therefore a befitting naming of waiting upon the openregion.
SCIENTIST: But now if transcendental-horizonal representing—from which releasement releases itself into the open-region on the basis of belonging—is the heretofore prevailing essence of thinking, then in releasement thinking transforms itself from such representing into waiting upon the open-region.
GUIDE: The essence of this waiting is, however, releasement to the open-region. Yet because it is the open-region which now and again lets releasement belong to itself, in letting it rest in itself, the essence of
47. In the 1959 excerpt this sentence was altered to read: “Insofar as proper releasement can occur without necessarily being preceded by this being-released-from horizonal transcendence” (G 49 / DT 73).—Tr.