QUOTE : Life has both a fragility and an obstinacy: it will be, if nothing opposes it. Not a hard nucleus of being, but the softness of the flesh...A Being of the in-between, an interbeing...Life is not a separable thing, but an investmemt, a singular point, a hollow in Being, an invariant ontological relief...the establishment of a level around which the divergences begin forming, a kind of being that functions like a vault, statistical being against the random, overcoming by encroachment, ambiguity of the part and the whole...thus being by attachment, that we cannot grasp apart, not bring it close (like a hard nucleus), refusal of all or nothing. But life is not negativity: it is a pattern of negations, a system of opposition that means that what is not this, is that, field, dimension--dimension=the depth for flat beings...But the opening is not an opening to everything. It is a specified opening of dimension...Life=being by sketch or outline, that is, territories, regions=inherence in increasingly more precise places in a field of action or a radiation of being.