Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

having approached him I know him better than. anyone. I can even
leave him as S. does in La Suite vnitienne with. the certitude that I shall
find him again tomorrow in the labyrinth of. the city in accordance with
a sort of astral conjunction (because the. city is curved because space is
curved because the rules of the game. inevitably puts the two
protagonists back on the same orbit).. The only way to avoid
encountering someone is to follow him. (according to a principle
opposed to the principle of the labyrinth. where you follow someone so
that you do not lose him). Implicit in the. situation however is the
dramatic moment when the one being followed. suddenly intuiting
suddenly becoming conscious that there is someone. behind him swings
round and spots his pursuer. Then the rules are. reversed and the hunter
becomes the hunted (for there is no escaping. laterally). The only truly
dramatic point is this unexpected. turningaround of the other who
insists upon knowing and damns the. consequences.. This reversal does
in fact occur in the Venice scenario. The man. comes towards her and
asks her 'What do you want' She wants nothing.. No mystery story no
love story. This answer is intolerable and implies. possible murder
possible death. Radical otherness always embodies the. risk of death.
S.'s anxiety revolves entirely around this violent. revelation the
possibility of getting herself unmasked the very thing. she is trying to
avoid.. S. could have met this man seen him spoken to him. But in that
case. she would never have produced this secret form of the existence
of the. Other. The Other is the one whose destiny one becomes not by
making his. aquintance in difference and dialogue but by entering into
him as into. something secret something forever separate. Not by
engaging in a. conversation with him as his shadow as his double as his
image by. embracing the Other the better to wipe out his tracks the
better to. strip him of his shadow. The Other is never the one with
whom we. Communicate he is the one who we follow and who follows
us.. The other is never naturally the other the other must be rendered.
other be being seduced by being made alien to himself even by being.
destroyed if there is no alternative (but in fact there are subtler. ways of
achieving this end).. eeeeee. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. eeeeeeee.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. e. eeeeeeeeeeeeeee. ). ) () Seduction knows that the
other is. never the end of desire that the subject is mistaken when he
focuses on. what he loves just as an utterance is mistaken when it
focuses on what. it says. Secrecy here is always the secrecy of artifice.
The necessity. of always focusing somewhere else of never seeking the
other in the. terrifying illusion of dialogue but instead following the
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