ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the beginning of a conversation concerning the possibility of peaceful coexistence from the perspective of breathing. This true conspiracy of peaceful coexistence as the Community of breathers differs radically from these normal communities as it does not exclude anybody based on their inheritance, values, beliefs or skills, but includes everybody who is a breathing being without any choice on the part of the breather himself or herself. One can choose not to be participant, not to be included into this respiratory communal covenant after one has already been initiated to it by holding one's breath as an act of negation of this primordial respiratory pact, but this act of disagreement leads one very fast into a deep state of anxiety, unrest and disharmony which makes all the human enterprises from the poetic creation to 'the most cruel forms of sadism', from the lovemaking and peacemaking to the war making, impossible.