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S I X
Shame and the Limits
of the Subject
It was that shame . . . that the just man experiences at another man's crime,
at the fact that such a crime should exist, that it should have been introduced
irrevocably into the world of things that exist, and that his will for good should
have proved too weak or null and should not have availed in defense.
P r i m o L e v i
It was not that I was finding febrile coordinates in the world. I existed in triple; I
occupied space. I moved toward the other . . . and the evanescent other, hostile
but not opaque, transparent, not there, disappeared. Nausea.
F r a n t z F a n o n
When I met Siquei in July 2004, he was a barrel-chested and
supremely self-confident man in his late thirties who had
killed several enemies. He whispered to the trees when he
walked in the forest. He had a quick laugh and a disarming
smile and he always brought back meat and he often stayed
up late at night singing with his rattle, his deep voice rolling
defiantly through the black brush.
In September of that year, Siquei and the Areguede'urasade
decided to settle permanently in Chaidi, over my ineffective
protests. When they completed the move back to Chaidi,
Siquei told a story in the old way, with elaborate panto-
mimes and imitations, of fending off the repeated attacks
of a spirit jaguar. Shortly afterward, Dejai assembled the
Areguede'urasade. “Now that you have settled here perma-
nently, you should know that there is nothing that is ta-
boo among the
Cojñone
. You should not obey the
puyaque
