“You embrace me mottled, I leave you shimmering like watered silk; I embrace you as a network, you leave me as a bundle. We caress each other along our contour lines, we leave each other with various knots, in embraces that have changed shape.
If you want to save yourself, take risks. If you want to save your soul, do not hesitate, here and now, to entrust it to the variable storm.
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I am, I exist in this mixed contingency that changes again and again through the agency of the storm that is the other, through the possibility of his or her existence. We throw each other off balance, we are at risk.”
– Michel Serres, The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
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