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eing buffeted by the wind in a rainstorm despite the fact that no umbrella, wind, or rainstorm is
present. In short, the mime is able to preserve the event independent of its spatio-temporal
actualization in a state of affairs” (Bryant 35). Joe Bousquet has been wounded. But what does
he do? He makes his wound the source of experimentation. In other words, he experiments with
his wound. But does Bousquet not thereby also demonstrate a will of indifference towards his
wound, in other words, that he does not take it personally anymore, that he has reached ‘to
wound’? When I grasp my wound as ‘to wound’ I return it to the world in its pure state. In other
words, I demonstrate that I am capable of taking it on. It is in this sense that I live my wound
differently, that I counter-actualize my wound. “The actor thus actualizes the event, but in a way
which is entirely from the actualization of the event in the depth of things. Or rather, the actors
redoubles his cosmic, or physical actualization, in his own way...and keeps from the event only
its contour and its splendour becoming thereby the actor of one’s own events—a counter-
actualization” (LS 150). If becoming is a connecting that births the self, perhaps the most
difficult, the most rewarding becoming is becoming precisely yourself, in other words, birthing
yourself by connecting to your own events. “Nothing more can be said and no more has ever
been said: to become worthy of what happens to us, and thus to will and release the event, to
become the offspring of one’s own events, and thereby to be reborn, to have one more birth...”
(LS 149). In this sense what changes is not the actual wound. That wound is still very much
around and always will be. Instead, what changes is your relationship to the wound. The wound
is no longer you because you have become another by means of it, in other words, by means of
the wound you have connected to ‘to wound’ and thereby to the creative power of life itself. You
have individuated yourself.
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