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The Sublime object (n.) is an ordinary object that happens to occupy the place of the impossible Thing — which is why, in Buñuel, a simple dinner or leaving a party becomes impossible to accomplish.
The Sublime object (n.) is a body within the body, indestructible beyond all wear — like money's other body, or the corpse of the Sadeian victim that survives every torment with its beauty immaculate.
The Sublime object (n.) after Hegel no longer points beyond itself to a transcendent Thing: it is an object whose positive body is just an embodiment of Nothing.
The Sublime object (n.) can live only half-seen: bring it into daylight and it dissolves into the ordinary — like the Roman frescoes in Fellini's Roma, fading the moment the subway diggers let the air in.