Decreation and the Ethical BindIn Simone Weils philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the others self affirmation and ones own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing. The others claims upon the selfwhich induce unfinished obligation, unmet sleep, hungerdrive the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality at the heart