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Hence the thought that for us to be fenced out of the animal’s encircling ring is for the animal to be fenced within it. Talk of the animal’s refusingly responsive poverty in world might then express a sense that the otherness of animality answers to something deep within our world, that animal and human beings can acknowledge their intimate otherness, and that its denial constricts both the encircling ring of their being and the horizon of our world.