What Sloterdijk frames as de-spherization might instead be read as a re-spherization—one that does not destroy the horizon but rather reconfigures its curvature. In Melanesian terms, the death-date oracle would not so much abolish the future as fold it into the present, creating a new kind of relational temporality. The fixed date becomes a gift (in the Maussian sense), an object that circulates between the oracle, the individual, and the community, binding them in reciprocal obligations of interpretation and response. The shadow it casts backward is not merely a specter of doom but a relational field, a space in which kinship ties, debts, and exchanges are recalibrated. Would the date be treated as a secret to be guarded, a prophecy to be averted, or a public fact to be incorporated into lineage reckoning? The answer would vary not by nation-state but by the local logic of personhood: in some societies, the date might be absorbed into bridewealth negotiations; in others, it could become a new axis for age-grade initiation cycles. The oracle does not impose a universal temporality but rather provides a new surface for cultural elaboration—one that could, paradoxically, intensify the very indeterminacy it seems to foreclose, as people devise rituals to outwit, defer, or sacralize their allotted terminus.