The enduring thing=like self about which there is so much care, and so much fuss, is not what is asserted in shows of dominance or competence or their opposites but something indirect, a sort of weight that is taken to swing behind these various psychic acts. Its claim to reality seems rather to be in how effectively it impedes these gestures and in beliefs about such failures of intent. Take away this hidden counter-balance and you sway more perfectly, without weight the heft of these empty acts is just as it ought to be and stops short when they are complete.