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Mar 10, 2001 grammars of creation george steiner faber. In this extraordinary document, steiner speaks of the six days of creation as a reawakening of the previous phases of the earths development. Our thoughts and feelings, steiner writes, find nothingness and the pressure of nonbeing difficult to sustain. And in fact it is true that probably no one in modern times penetrated nature as deeply as goethe did. Financial timesearly in grammars of creation, george steiner references platos maxim that in all.