This chapter focuses on true otherness, exemplified by the snake. The focus on the snake puts to the test the power of the sympathetic imagination and allows me to look at a last philosophical perspective, that of Levinas. The chapter analyzes Levinas’ ethics of the face and his refusal to grant a face to nonhuman animals. It then looks at some criticisms of Levinas’ position and concludes with a reading of D.H. Lawrence’s poem Snake, on the wake of Derrida’s late seminars. Unlike Derrida, the chapter argues that the search for a face, the most significative human trait, still betrays an anthropomorphic drive, and only in the confrontation with the back, the site of outmost vulnerability, will true ethics emerge.