Now, if evidence received in the slumber of reason loses or will lose the characteristics of wakefulness (ibid.), then it is necessary, in order to open our eyes (and did Bataille ever want to do otherwise, correctly certain that he was thereby risking death: the condition in which I would see would be to die, to have spent the night with reason, to have kept watch and to have slept with her: and to have done so throughout the night, until morning, until the other dawn which resembles, even to the point of being taken for it like daybreak for nightfall the hour when the philosophical animal can also finally open its eyes.