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Raymond Federman: IN THE SANDBOX He constantly tortures himself to
know who he is, he wants to know, wants to understand himself, but
perhaps it is this ignorance of his self that is his strength, his
destiny, never to understand himself and to remain always
misunderstood ... He offers himself totally, his head, hands, mind,
soul, zipper, all open, not to expose himself, but as an initiatory
gesture ... This is his way of saying, I am here, everything I have
is here take it ... Such ego as he may be said to have is the
referred ego of those outside of him who give it back to him as they
see him ... He is not generous in any received social, sentimental
sense, it is simply his nature not an acquired virtue, a personal
gesture, like the way he watches over others ... He is a child in a
sandbox asking others to come and play, but no one comes to play
with him ... More often than not, they mirror him, but the mirroring
does not reflect, it obscures who he is ...
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