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There is, in Nancy's language, an irreducible sense of excess, a body beyond the reach of its own limits, which is to say, both beyond and before the Self, and where sensation floods the body's senses in its saturation. This extended/ distended/ attenuated 'naked body' is where senses are exposed to senses and nerves end up on nerves. Nancy's corpus is a glossary for a sensing body, open to the possibilities of what a surgeon's knife cuts out.