“We speak of [the body] to others as of a thing that belongs to us; but for us it is not entirely a thing, and it belongs to us a little less than we belong to it.”63 To speak to a legal sense of the body requires no less an aporia. The law sutures our bodies into its sartorial imagination. We are both more and less than the ornaments that unavoidably mark our skin with such mute insistence.
