being is the fatal fault of ontological seismicity, in which each human is strangled at birth, a rejoinder to their subsistent mediocrity. Cioran's catapult away from the moment of birth in favour of a drive toward death evidences the redistribution of vital energies. Neither limit allows for even the postulate of consolation —this may be its ethical bind; to think thinking effectively requires the removal of naming before even the occurrence of a name: thought unthought — a residual equivocation with having never been. In the abstract the suggestion of a void in the place of a self is only effective if the self were never intimated in the first place (un-borne); erasure is thus a temporal impossibility, reliant, as it is, upon the conditional — the requisition of the present. In the desire for remove is an abhorrence of repletion, a projection into vacuity. Philosophy's donne [which is effectively a done deal] aggregates something of Bachmann's today and of Benjamin's Jetztzeit [now-time]; it makes itself anunciatory of a historical discrepancy between temporality and