Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like… — Jean Baudrillard

Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.

Some are obsessed by both.

Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.