"The other - the lion, the squirrel, the grass, another human consciousness - is precisely that: absolutely other. It is uniquely, absolutely, itself, amid its own form of life: it is of itself and for itself. Should one have the extraordinary experience of encountering such otherness in its pure, individual form, it would represent itself to us as a perfect freeness or gratuitousness: an isness uncanny to behold, roaring, weird and mad, beyond the determination of exterior logic, beyond the conventions of cultural symbologies and social exchange."
Nigel Rapport, Gratuitousness: Notes Towards an Anthropology of Interiority
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