You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.*
Indeed I have and don't apologize for it.
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Being is the is of that which is.
What is the meaning of this Being?
Dasein is Being interested in the being of its being.
ref. Heidegger, or so I believe
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* https://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Emily_Bronte/Wuthering_Heights/Chapter_VII_p7.html