It is a cultural achievement to view experience as a something bounded by the two unknowns of birth and death. As such it is ungrounded and insecure, and is known as having always been so. We are here, we are given so much time to come to an understanding of our predicament, then we go, taking whatever we have concluded with us. Our understanding of death determines our understanding of Being, but we do not understand death at all. We know only that experience is split, and that every way we have of thinking, feeling or willing works this split according to a different pattern or analogy, none of which are adequate to it, or even intended to completely expose it. If it is the split that makes experience possible, all the rest being already present or seen to be present regardless, since presence itself is corollary to the split, then what we are is that split, and not the illusory thing implied by it which we endlessly pursue. What is is not present and hence cannot be sought, and the same can be said of us, or whoever is seeking. Perhaps all this can be said, unless even the saying gives the lie to it, but if it can then we can indulge in an analogy. The split is a three way thing and the parts can be called subject, object and horizon. The subject is never in awareness, only object. But when we are aware of object we are also aware of something else that necessarily accompanies the awareness and makes it what it is. The object is set somewhere, in a horizon, or the awareness itself as a functioning is the horizon, peripheral and neither present nor absent, necessary. This almost obviates the need for a subject in the account of experience as opening. If we pivot on the belief that the seeing requires a seer, the prey that just escapes our grasp is the functioning, because its trace lies in the horizon, just a small way in the past. What points to the subject is the ungroundedness of the object/horizon duality, the possibility that it could be false, could prove to be other than it is, might be a dream or whatever it is that dreams are instances of. We have no purchase on a final reality and receive no hints from such, and yet we are inapt for anything that can be put by.