| Like a true vampire, the spider sucks the fluid from the
flies it has attracted into its web in the same way the concept disfigures life, rendering
it pale, sad and ugly, because, like a man frenzied with starvation, the concept takes
nourishment from life. Feeding on life does not in this case give life. It is only the
simulacrum and the ghost of life; the rags it wears, full of holes like the spiders web,
are the symptoms of its own deficiency. The concept, which vampirizes an already
anthropomorphized life, only has the appearance of life. Man takes from the world only
what he has already deposited there; he feeds on his own substance which he then throws up
in the form of concepts like the spider its web. |