Is there a language for describing consciousness without a subject? Language itself is disembodied, entirely portable, and while in every instance it finds an addressee it does not necessarily need a speaker, or at least the speaker can be deferred and diffused into merest vapour. It can also be reabsorbed into the materiality of marks or sounds by being stretched, torn and distorted in various ways. All of this is diversionary however, the generality that belongs to utterances as objects is not the generality that arises with their meaning, the generality that is the object strictly correlative to a subject, in turn the origin or destination or otherwise vanishing point of that meaning. There is a this, here, which in spite of being at the very limit of any utterance is just as essential to its practical going forward as its what. This division, implicit or explicit, is what has come down with your language and with you, it is its inbuilt theory of mind and hence what makes it work as it does. It may not actually correspond to anything true or even possible, but for you who uses language to forge your way it is inescapable. Can the two poles - generality of meaning and absolute particularity of source of utterance - be grasped at the same time, as a single act or event? No, but their functionally contingent coincidence provides an explanation for experience which enables us to share impressions, to have our awareness opened to the discoveries made by others. The dual nature of consciousness is thus an important social fact as much as it is a condition of personal experience, but neither the social nor the personal contains the truth of the other.