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thinking rests in the fact that, if I may say so, the open-region enregions releasement in itself. [123]

SCHOLAR: Thinking is releasement to the open-region, because its essence rests in the enregioning of releasement.

GUIDE: But by this you are saying that the essence of thinking is not determined from thinking, and that means not from waiting as such, but rather from the other itself, that is, from the open-region, which essentially occurs by enregioning.

SCIENTIST: In a certain manner, I can follow all that we just said about releasement, open-region, and enregioning; all the same, I can represent nothing of it to myself.

SCHOLAR: You are probably also not supposed to, if you think what was said in accordance with its essence.

SCIENTIST: You mean that, in accordance with the transformed essence of thinking, we wait upon it.

SCHOLAR: Namely upon the enregioning of the open-region, so that this lets our essence into the open-region, that is, into belonging to it.

GUIDE: But what if we are already appropriated to the open-region?

SCIENTIST: How does that help us if we are not in fact truly appropriated?

SCHOLAR: Thus we are and thus we are not.

SCIENTIST: Once again this restless to and fro between yes and no.

SCHOLAR: We are suspended, as it were, between the two.

GUIDE: Yet staying in this betweenness is waiting.

SCHOLAR: And waiting is the essence of releasement.

SCIENTIST: So this is no restless suspension, but rather a restful resting.⁴⁸ [124]

SCHOLAR: And thus no suspension at all.

GUIDE: Just as little are there the supposedly fixed hooks of yes and no, on and between which we are supposedly suspended.

SCHOLAR: We are appropriated to the open-region; but we do not yet experience it as the open-region.

SCIENTIST: Which is why we need to clarify that upon which we are perhaps waiting. I think this is possible, because after all we succeeded in a clarification of releasement [Gelassenheit].

GUIDE: Whose essence of course remains engaged [eingelassen] in the open-region.

SCHOLAR: Thus everything depends on a clarification of the essence of the open-region. And I feel that we passed too quickly over and away from the essence of the open-region when it first came up in our conversation.