#unperception

[hypocrite-lecteur]

While we perceive something, we simultaneously forget it. Every present thus contains a part of non-lived experience. Indeed, it is, at the limit, what remains non-lived in every life, that which, for its traumatic character or its excessive proximity remains unexperienced in every experience.

Giorgio Agamben, quoted in Dan Beachy-Quick's A January Notebook, in "1.24"