Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

sure of themselves. Does encountering the other really prove that he
exists Nothing could. be more doubtful. On the other hand if I followed
the other secretly. he exists precisely because I do not know him
because I do not want. know him nor to have him recognize me. He
exists because without. having chosen to I exercise a deadly right over
him the right to. follow. Without ever 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)..
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