cage of time

Nascenti homini omnifaria semina et omnigenae vitae germina indidit Pater.

"Insofar as he has neither essence nor specific vocation, Homo is constitutively nonhuman; he can receive all natures and faces."

I guess this is the modern way: the tracks of Man are what man is; one must walk one's own way, find one's own distinct style: reason, essence, and nature are not given but, rather, discovered in the living of a life, in the experiments of living. Unpredictable, and even sometimes addicted to unpredictability. More: the ability to erase the tracks, the traces of what one previously was. In a "second space" does one remember the first? Does the butterfly recall anything of its former existence, or state of soul? Do we?

"The animal has memory but no memories". Is their life but a dream within a dream?

Captivated, captivation: to be held by an irresistible charm.

Shortly after meeting Hannah Arendt, Heidegger wrote: "The demonic has struck me. Nothing like this has ever happened to me. In the rainstorm on the way home, you were even more beautiful and impressive. I should have liked to wander with you for nights on end".
--Courtesy of Roxana

captivation signifies essential withholding of every apprehending of something as something.

"On the one hand, captivation is a more spellbinding and intense openness than any kind of human knowledge; on the other..it is closed in total opacity.

Yet the tick is immediately united to these three elements [of its environment] in an intense and passionate relationship the likes of which we might never find in the relations that bind man to his apparently much richer world. The tick is this relationship. She lives only in it and for it."

from "it" to "she"!

"The tick was kept alive for eighteen years without nourishment, that is, in a condition of absolute isolation from its environment...in that period of waiting the tick lies in in a sleep-like state similar to the one we experience every night....[and so] without a living subject, time cannot exist.

Is it only man and woman who see time as a cage,time as time, time and again?

The dark night of the soul:

"But what becomes of the tick and its world in this state of suspension that lasts eighteen years? ..And what sense does it make to speak of "waiting" without time and without world?"

--quotations from Agamben's 'The Open'.