The grandest systems rest on such delineated incursions of the other as the wailing of a hungry child the eruption of a volcano the rise of a demagogue to power and act of human compassion the blooming of a flower. While no limiting other can perspectivize the whole of Being it can lead the mind shaken from its customary attachments to a field of otherness exceeding itself in quality and power. This is better known by artists than philosophers and best of all by poets.