"If we want to see it in the light of day, it changes into an everyday object, it dissipates itself,..."

“If we want to see it in the light of day, it changes into an everyday object, it dissipates itself, precisely because in itself, it is nothing at all.”

- SLAVOJ ZIZEK on “sublime objects” and the nature of desire in which the Thing we look for is foreever ceasing, forever keeping its distance from our view, forever just slightly out of sight http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/117789775626