EXCERPT The Ommatomaniac is the only conceivable subject that can turn the proverbial or figural expression ‘staring death in the face’ into the literal belief that they see death itself: still, it is not enough to simply see death (which places one instantaneously in a too-late temporality), yet one must also know what one sees (recognise it as death) in order to earn that split-second opening of an exceptional window of consciousness.…