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Ring, Line, Rim, Bend
The ānus is a ring; being ring, it is a form.And a form, of course, belongs to no one.
A ring is not a circle. Geometrically, a ring is a shape made up of two concentric circles, that is, two plane figures, each bounded by one line such that, as Euclid puts it in the first book of Elements, all the straight lines falling upon it from one point among those lying within the figure are equal to one another, each containing the same center point (Euclid, 2017, p. 1). The annulus is the region between these two concentric circles - not the rounds themselves, but the portion of skin, or body, or world, or tension, or pleasure, or all of the above, they hold true between them. The center shared by these concentric circles is, however, here, precisely no thing, a space for passage: an opening, a distance, a spacing, a gap, a gaping.