Don't let me see because I am close to seeing the core of life - and. I am again going to the most primary divine life, I am going to an inferno of brute life. feels that she loses her own identity and that her being is somehow dissolved into "the inferno of brute lie." Thus, she goes back to the origins of life, to the sacred primordial state by communing with a primitive form of life: "Hold my hand tight, because I feel that I'm going. Immediately after this revelatory encounter, G.H. The Christian communion requires the deliberate humiliation and annihilation of the self, so as to attain a heightened understanding of the self. I am going to kiss the leper."(Lispector, 31) the Christian symbolism here is obvious: self-revelation can only be achieved, paradoxically, through self-effacement in front of the Other. feels that she must overcome her disgust and make a gesture of supreme communion: kiss the leper: "I am going to overcome my disgust, and I am going to go as far as the gesture of supreme communion. The impression produced by this image of the wounded cockroach that tries to crawl despite the pain and despite its ugliness is what actually brings about her revelation G.H. However, the cockroach doesn't die immediately, and continues to crawl despite its injuries.
crushes the bug which was crawling on the door of the wardrobe.
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