Caillois suggests that mimesis is a matter of "being tempted by space," a drama in which the self is but a self-diminishing point amid others, losing its boundedness. . . . "To these dispossessed souls, space seems to be a devouring force. Space pursues them, encircles them, digests them in a gigantic phagocytosis. It ends by replacing them. Then the body separates itself from thought, the individual breaks the boundary of his skin and occupies the other side of his senses. . . . He is similar, not similar to something, but just similar. And he invents spaces of which he is the convulsive possession."