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[1526] earth, there's no cure for that!
[1527] (Pause.)
[1528] It was an
excessively dry day, I remember, zero by the hygrometer.
[1529] Ideal weather, for my lumbago poor old bones..
[1530] (Pause.
[1531] Violently.)
[1532] But what in God's name do you imagine?
[1533] That
the earth will awake in spring?
[1534]
That there'll be fish to be
found in the rivers and seas again? That the rivers
& seas will run
with
fish again?
[1541] (Forcibly.)
[1542] But in what deep sleep, in what deep sleep
already?
[1543] (Pause.)
[1544] Well to make[⁁] it short I finally offered to
take him into my service.
[1545] He had touched me.
[1546] And then I
imagined already that I wasn't much longer for this world!
[1547] (He laughs.
[1548] Pause.)
[1549] Well?
[1550] (Pause.)
[1551] Well?
[1552]
[1553] Here if
you were careful you might die a nice natural death, in
peace and comfort.
[1554] (Pause.)
[1555] Well?
[1556] (Pause.)
[1557] In the end he
asked me would I[⁁] consent to take in the child as well- if
he were still alive.
[1558] (Pause.)
[1559] It was the moment I was
waiting for.
[1560] (Pause.)
[1561] Would I consent to take in the child..
[1562] (Pause.)
[1563] I can see him still, down on his knees, his hands
flat on the ground, glaring at me with his mad eyes, in
spite of what I had just told him defiance of my wishes..
[1564] (Pause. [1565] Normal tone.)
& seas will run
with
fish again?
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