An infinite question: The paradox of representation in life & times of Michael K

As for thought, its true well-being is to be ill with the absolute. Thought is in a good state only when this "state" signals to thought its vocation, which is to think the absolute, but with the resistance that the "fundamental measure" of all representation opposes to the actuality of the absolute.¹ The authentic answer is always the question's vitality. It can close in around the question, but it does so in order to preserve the question by keeping it open.²