It is snowing on Harris Creek and very cold, so it pleases me to sit here, within the warmth of the room and the warmth of my body, and write, and maybe smoke a little more reefer, and watch, through the glass, the snow falling on Harris Creek.

The political body is the body in conflict; the conflict is "intestine." The human political body is founded on the fantasy of crime and punishment. The politics of the sun is driven by guilt. The family originates in a crime and its destiny is punishment. All the killing that follows that originating killing is sacrificial; interest on an unpayable debt, "blood payment."

It would appear that among all the other species, the human species is the only one to suffer this fantasy of originating in a killing of the father by the sons, who then divide and eat his body, thereby identifying themselves as the incorporated members of his body. What the members have in common is their crime and its consequent guilt. The history of the species is the attempt at the expiation of guilt. The human species carries the guilt of the origin of species.