The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the se — Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the se — Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the se — Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the se — Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the se — Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
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The recognition and the acceptance of the Other's humanity (or humanness) is a maiming of self. You have to wound the self, cut it in strips, in order to -know- that you are as similar and of the same substance of shadows.

— Breyten Breytenbach, Intimate Stranger
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