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Everything before taking place, should have the chance to not occur at all, to don’t take place. This suspense is essential, like the negative in the photo. It is this negative which enables the photo to have a meaning, although a false or constructed meaning; it is the negative which enables it to take at least place — never the first time, always the second. For things have meaning only the second time, like in the second coming of Jesus, baptism in anabaptism, form in anamorphosis. Hence the fantasy that there will be a second meeting, another chance, in another world or pervious life.

There it is never any definitive end to a relationship. All that has not been resolved, all that has not been said, must be there again in a second existence . It is in this reprise as Kierkegaard would put it, that the deepest pleasure lies: that of vanquishing time by the play of second meeting. All essential events play a second time(death alone happens only once, and is not replayable). But this second time time is also the last, and every event “reprised”, symbolically replayed, brings us closer to death. Once all events have been recapitulated in memory and cancelled by that evocation, one’s destiny is sealed and the end is nigh.