I: This is what our language calls "hesitate." It is done truly when slowness rests on shy reverence. And so I do not wish to disturb your hesitation by urging you on too rashly.
J: You are more helpful to me in my attempt to say the word than you can know.
I: I shall not hide from you that you are throwing me into a state of great agitation, especially because all my efforts to get an answer to my question from language experts and linguistic scholars of language have so far been in vain. But in order that your reflection may swing freely, almost with· out your prompting, let us exchange roles, and let me be the one who gives the answers, specifically the answer to your question about hermeneutics.
J: We are back, then, on the path which we took first in our dialogue.
I: A path on which we did not get very far with an explication of hermeneutics. I told you stories, rather, showing how I came to employ the word.
J: While I, in turn, noted that now you do not use it any longer.
I: Finally, I emphasized that hermeneutics. used as an adjunct word to "phenomenology," does not have its usual meaning, methodology of interpretation, but means the interpretation itself.
J: Then our dialogue drifted away into the undefined.
I: Fortunately.
J: Even so, I thank you for coming back once more to hermeneutics.
I: As I do so, I would like to start from the etymology of the word; it will show you that my use o£ the word is not arbitrary, and that it also is apt to clarify the intention of my experiment with phenomenology.