Verbatim quote · from the corpus

“The participants defer their appropriation of the central object for fear of the collective hostility that might be aroused by any individual’s completion of his gesture to secure it for himself, until such time as they can share it through the collective sparagmos or tearing-apart.”

— Eric Gans, The Aborted Gesture · Saturday, November 11th, 2017 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment