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A Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠always in need of an audience (or 'preservers') in order to bring out its meaning and to receive the light that it sheds on their lives.

The Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the 'towards-which' of things like the hammer, the plane, and the needle. The hammer is "for building', the shoe is 'for wearing', the clock is 'for telling time'.

A Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that totality within which our everyday dealings dwell. It is not the tools, but the whole of the work within which our equipment is encountered.

Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to be found when one is 'at work' on something. It implies a usability which belongs to it essentially.

The Work (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that with which our everyday dealings proximally dwell rather than with the tools themselves, on account of the fact that work bears with it that referential totality within which the equipment is encountered.