Scholar: ... so that things which appear in that-which-regions no longer have the character of objects.

Teacher: They not only no longer stand opposite us, they no longer stand at all.

Scientist: Do they lie, then, or how about them?

Teacher: They lie, if by this we mean that resting which was just discussed.

Scientist: But where do things rest? What does resting consist of?

Teacher: They rest in the return to the abiding of the expanse of their self-belonging.

Scholar: But in this return, which after all is movement, can there be rest?

Teacher: Indeed there can, if rest is the seat and the reign of all movement.

Scientist: I must confess that I can't quite re-present in my mind all that you say about region, expanse and abiding, and about return and resting.

Scholar: Probably it can't be re-presented at all, in so far as in re-presenting everything has become an object that stands opposite us within a horizon.

Scientist: Then we can't really describe what we have named?

Teacher: No. Any description would reify it.

Scholar: Nevertheless it lets itself be named, and being named it can be thought about . . .

Teacher: . . . only if thinking is no longer re-presenting.

Scientist: But then what else should it be?

Teacher: Perhaps we now are close to being released into the nature of thinking . . .

Scholar: . . . through waiting for its nature.