What is the relation Between presence and Presentation?

What is the relation between presence and presentation? This is the question I want to bring to the seminar. When I present this for you, I am not presenting something I already know. The manifest meaning, as the words I write when asking the question does not exist in my mind before I utter the words. But neither is it right to say that what I ask did not exist before I articulated it. There is something in here that I try to articulate, but it is not already manifest, it has no form. I struggle to manifest an understanding that I only have a presentiment about. This un-manifest understanding has developed during the time I have worked with this question of presence. It includes all the times I have tried to manifest various aspects of it, for example as I have tried to explain what I am doing or tried to ask a question (is I for example presented here at the seminar last year). If we think in terms of presence, we might say that all the times I have presented this question in various forms to various people these presentations have brought my own presence in the question deeper. Something has happened to this un-manifest understanding of the question that I am trying to articulate right now. What is the presence of this question? It is not the same as its manifest form in the words I utter. Neither is it the same as the un-manifest world of meaning that comes into play as I struggle to articulate the words. The presence of the question seems to include both these two spheres, as well as the movement between them. This movement, the struggle to articulate and come to grips with �it� may be particularly important to be aware of regarding presence. Let me give some examples that might point to such a movement: Let us start with this text itself. The text you are now reading is the forth version I have written. Three previous versions ended up in the paper-bin as they strayed off to places I did not mean to go but where the writing non the less brought them. The meaning seemed to take its own course as it manifested. I could not predict this before it happened. This is what I mean when I say that the manifest question did not exist before I ask it. Still the question also existed in some way before I now articulated it. These attempts to articulate the question have thought me something. They have gradually made me see what I was trying to ask. I had a vague presentiment about it, but I did not know until now, in the fourth attempt. I am still far from knowing what to ask, but this time I have managed to formulate a specific question, �what is the relation between presence and presentation?�, and I feel close enough to let the question go to you. If we think about the question in the wide sense, not just the specific formulation, all these attempts to present the question seem to have changed it some way. May we say that the question has become more present? Or that I may have become deeper present in the question? What is the relation between its presence and its presentation?