Aug 2, 2021
… for a few seconds, whatever Care one felt when one went to sleep now has given way to a pure moment of Carelessness, before the day begins. This suspended time offers a definition of the Neutral as such: like an airlock, not perhaps between the two worlds of dreaming and waking, but more between two bodies. One body experiences time that borders on “nature,” as an immortal body or one close to death, and the other is the anxious body involved in “life” in the activist sense. The neutral awakening constitutes a momentary dislocated groping between these two bodies.
Roland Barthes