#limit experiences

Phenomenology at the limit. At the limit of what? First and fore most, of logos: word, speech, reason. But also, crucially, of life, or better  yet, of lives. On the multifaceted edges of phenomenology, G.H.’s being  and thinking (if thought is what there is in this text) are suspended  between the different strata of life—the animal and the human (not to  mention the divine), the immanent and the transcendent, of consciousness and of the world, the inner and the outer-suspended , but not, therefore, already dead.  

Human beings cannot feel this passion, because they cannot feel or  live in the present. Instead, they throw or project their past expectations  onto future experiences, turning these into a pale shadow of themselves,  an ideality with which they desperately and futilely wish to catch up. To  feel is always to experience beyond one’s experiential capacity (hence,  to experience that which cannot be experienced), to be hypersensitive,  even to (and within) the indifference of anonymous existence.

the inhuman is our better part, is the thing,  the thing part of people

embodied hyperattention to life will, for humans,  spell out distraction from the consciousness of this life, a mental state  G.H. craves from the very inception of her narrative.