HEIDEGGERIAN BALLS

Dasein' is an ontological conversion tool, a clever, well-known, sly old South German, peasant-type philosophical fairground wheeze, (cognitivly redolent of the: 'Three-Cup-Swap.')

There's a sucker born every minute  - especially for the cunning gerundial  reification 'BEING THERE', which substitutes the existential modality  of the reader of the metaphysical fantasy into a 'word-stunned,' existentialist jack-o'-lantern, or 'enthused schlemiel' or plain old fall guy.

Watched intently by the little gobemouch crowd, the hustler Heidegger places the conceptual  ball under one of the semantic cups then switches them around with such speed and bewildering dexterity that the onlookers soon become confused and uncertain about which gerundial cup conceals the thingified  ball of being.

Eventually the gawping rustics are convinced that the hypostazised  'being there' of the ball IS the ball.