His thoughts are ripe, W. says. The time has come. He's about to publish his thoughts on Cohen and Rosenzweig. It's time his essay on messianism and mathematics found its audience. But where will he publish it? Somewhere as obscure as possible. Somewhere it definitely won't be read.
The Poles have asked him for an essay, W. says. They want to publish him in one of their obscure Polish journals. In Polish?, I ask him. Of course, in Polish! That should be the destiny of his thought after several years of research: publication in an obscure Polish journal, and translated into Polish, a language barely anyone reads.
But the Poles'll understand him, won't they?, I ask him. Of course! Of course the Poles will understand him! But the Poles will see through him, too, W.'s certain of that. Only they'll know that he never really understood the infinitesimal calculus. Only they'll know why his mathematical footnote is incomplete.
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