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Sorry for pasting this here but the ghost whispered me maybe I should do it and my bla bla in the post was already too long so I hesitated to paste this in the post.

Chapter 6.2 Cinema 2 The time image:

Is this to say that, in life, everything is a matter of forces? Yes, if it is understood that the relation of forces is not quantitative, but necessarily implies certain 'qualities'. There are forces which are now able to respond to others only in a single, uniform and invariable way: the scorpion in Mr Arkadin knows only how to string, and stings the frog that carries him over the water, even if it means death by drowning. Variability thus survives in the relation of forces, since the scorpion's sting turns against itself, when it is directed in this case at the frog. None the less, the scorpion is the type of a force which no longer knows how to metamorphose itself according to the variations of what it can affect and what it can be affected by. Bannister is a big scorpion who knows only how to sting. Arkadin knows only how to kill, and Quinlan how to fix the evidence. This is a type ofexhausted force, even when it has remained quantitatively very large, and it can only destroy and kill, before destroying itself, and perhaps in order to kill itself. It is here that it rediscovers a centre, but one which coincides with death. No matter how large it is, it is exhausted because it no longer knows how to transform itself. Itis thus descending, decadent and degenerate: it represents im- potence in bodies, that is, that precise point where the 'will to power' is nothing but a will-to-dominate, a being for death, which thirsts for its own death, as long as it can pass through that of others. Welles multiples the list of these all-powerful impotents: Bannister and his artificial iimbs, Quinlan and his cane; Arkadin and his helplessness when he no longer has an aeroplane; lago, the impotent par excellence. These are men ofrevenge: not in the same way, however, as the truthful man who claimed to judge life in the name of higher values. They, on the contrary, take themselves to be higher men, these are higher men who claim to judge life by their own standards, by their own authority. But is this not the same spirit of revenge in two forms: