Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

life.. (. (. ). ) In Sophie Calle's La Suite vnitienne S. decides one day.
give anextra dimension to this experiment by following a man she
barely. knowsthroughout a trip he is making to Venice. She manages to
locate thehotel. where he is staying. She rents a room opposite so that
she canobserve his. coming and goings. She photographs him
continually. Shewants nothing from him. has no desire to know him.
Since he mightrecognize her she disguises herself. as a blonde. But
Carnival holds noattraction for her and she spends a. fortnight
surmounting endlessdifficulties in order to keep on the trail of her. prey.
She questionspeople in the shops he visits she knows which shows he
goes. to. Sheeven knows the exact time of his return to Paris and goes
to await. hisarrival so that she can take a last snapshot of him. Does she
want him to. kill her Does she want him to find her pursuitso
intolerable (especially since. she wants nothing out of it least ofall
romance) that he will attack her. physically or turn on her likeOrpheus
on Eurydice and make her disappear Is. she hoping that thingswill
suddenly be reversed and that He will become Her. destiny Like
allgames this one too has its fundamental rule nothing must. happen
thatmight facilitate a contact or a relationship betwen them. The.
secretmust not be revealed for fear of falling into banality.. ) ). ) ) (. We
should not say 'The other exists I have met him' but instead'The. other
exists I have followed him'. Meeting information is alwaystoo real. too
direct too indiscreet. There is no secret involved. Thinkof how people.
meeting each otherare forever recognizing each otherforever reciting
their. identities (just as people who love each otherare forever telling
each other. so). Can they be so sure of themselvesDoes encountering
the other really prove. that he exists Nothing couldbe more doubtful.
On the other hand if I followed. the other secretlyhe exists precisely
because I do not know him because I. do not wantto know him nor to
have him recognize me. He exists because. withouthaving chosen to I
exercise a deadly right over him the right. tofollow. Without ever
having approached him I know him better thananyone. I. can even leave
him as S. does in La Suite vnitienne withthe certitude. that I shall find
him again tomorrow in the labyrinth ofthe city in accordance. with a
sort of astral conjunction (because thecity is curved because space is.
curved because the rules of the gameinevitably 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 labyrinthwhere. you follow someone so
that you do not lose him). Implicit in thesituation. however is the
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