“ La figure du travailleur. ” Here it must be explained: “figure” is first of all not “phenomenon” (Erscheinung), it is a contouring within the phenomenal world. “ Travail ” goes back to the Latin “tripalium,” an instrument of torture. “Arbeit” (work) comes from the Gothic “arpeo,” which means inheritance. (Correspondence 1949–1975, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Jünger, translated by Timothy Sean Quinn)