In a symbolic sense, eating is equivalent to sexual intercourse; both are acts of mutual incorporation. The corporate body is a body in coitus, a synergetic body, a "whole that is greater than the sum of its parts." One part is always eating and one part is always being eaten; one part is always conceiving and one part is always being concieved. In the perception of the object is the incorporation of the subject; to kill is to be killed.

How to proceed in the midst of such a nightmare. Repression, or, the conscious identification with a part of the whole. For the action to proceed one actor must play the part of the one who eats and the other must play the part of the sacrificial victim. But the two parts are not, in actuality, apart; they constitute one body. Partial consciousness is necessarily unconscious of this fact. Within the corporate body desire hides from itself.

Harris Creek is frozen over this morning, a great silver-white reflector of the blinding light of our collective Sun God.