I am total­ly with him in loca­ting my opti­mism in appo­si­tio­nal proxi­mi­ty to his pes­si­mism even if I would tend not to talk about the inside/outside rela­tio­na­li­ty of social death and social life while spea­king in terms of appo­si­tion and per­mea­tion rather than in terms of oppo­si­tion and sur­roun­ding.