Gaiety is not the convulsion that follows anguish, the minor laugh which melts away at the moment when one has had a dose call, and which is in relation to anguish along the lines of the relationship of positive to negative: On the contrary, gaiety, tied to the work of death, fills me with anguish, is accentuated by an anguish and, in exchange, exasperates this anguish: finally, gay anguish, anguished gaiety present me with absolute rending in an aspic in which it is my joy that finally rends me asunder, but in which abatement would follow if I was totally torn apart, without measure Hegel, la mort,.