Passivity is not simple receptivity, any more than it is formless and
inert matter ready for any form. Passive are the throes of dying (dying,
silent intensity; that which cannot be welcomed, which is inscribed
wordlessly; the body in the past, the body of no one, of the interval:
being's suspense, a seizure like a cut in time, which we can not evoke
except as wild, unnarratable history having no meaning in any present).
Passive: the un-story, that which escapes quotation and which memory does
not recall -- forgetfulness as thought. that which, in other words,
cannot be forgotten because it has always already fallen outside memory.
M. Blanchot /The Writing of the Disaster