{"id":2782,"date":"2026-09-28T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?page_id=2782"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:46:33","slug":"night-is-the-seamstress-of-stars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/abbreviations\/night-is-the-seamstress-of-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Night is the Seamstress of Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Night is the seamstress\u00a0of stars<br \/>\nwhose sparkles she sews together<br \/>\nwithout thread or needle or knot<br \/>\nin a glittering stichless seam<br \/>\ntucking us in nearer to space.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>After Hans Dieter Zimmermann (indirectly quoting Martin Heidegger<\/i><\/b>)<\/p>\n<p>Die Nacht ist die N\u00e4herin der Sterne, wie die Kinder sagen; sie f\u00fcgt zusammen ohne Naht und Saum und Zwirn; sie ist die N\u00e4herin, weil sie nur mit der N\u00e4he arbeitet,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Hans Dieter Zimmermann<\/b> drew upon a well-known passage from Heidegger. I \u00a0versified it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night is the seamstress\u00a0of stars whose sparkles she sews together without thread or needle or knot in a glittering stichless seam tucking us in nearer to space. After Hans Dieter Zimmermann (indirectly quoting Martin Heidegger) Die Nacht ist die N\u00e4herin der Sterne, wie die Kinder sagen; sie f\u00fcgt zusammen ohne Naht und Saum und Zwirn; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/abbreviations\/night-is-the-seamstress-of-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Night is the Seamstress of Stars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2782","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2782\/revisions\/2791"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}