Body loss
September 27th 2006 06:08
On the removal of the other's body you become aware, either suddenly, or gradually, but with increasing force, of the way your own takes the other into account. Either it will be the absence that is striking, like the loss of a digit, or it will be the realisation of the physical practicalities, the concrete ways you've learnt to adjust yourself. These needn't be intimate shapes, like those of sleeping: the most startling might be the day-to-day, because of the defamiliarization of what was previously natural or unexamined. In all things you will have been accustomed to lean or turn towards them, or half from them, or otherwise to allow for the space they occupy -- in the way you position yourself at tables, or rest on the arms of chairs at cinemas, or hold your body when walking.
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