Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Maurice Blanchot from The Gaze of Orpheus translation by Lydia Davis



"Remaining is not accessible to the one who dies. The deceased, we say, is no longer of this world, he has left it behind him, but what is left behind is precisely this cadaver, which is not of this world either--even though it is here--which is, rather, behind the world, something the living person (and not the deceased) has left behind him and which now affirms, on the basis of this, the possibility of a world behind, a return backwards, an indefinite survival, indeterminate, indifferent, about which we only know that human reality, when it comes to an end, reconstitutes its presence and proximity."

2 comments:

celestual said...

the cadavour could also be considered the commodity of the existince. the corporal item one purchases at birth used to display the the interior and exterior accessories of the mind in the form of the body. This left over or refuse exists as a means of display or for the flaneur so they can view the other.

Sirama Bajo said...

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