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[3407] praeteritorum bonorum - that must be unpleasant.

[3407|001] We wouldn't know.

[3407|002] (To Pozzo) [3409] And it came on you all of a sudden?

[3410] ^{[place = inline] Quite} Wonderfully ^{[place = inline] !} good.

[3411] I'm asking you if it came on you all of a sudden.

[3412] I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune. [3413] (pause)
[3414] Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep.

[3415] When was that?

[3416] I don't know.

[3417] But no later than yesterday -

[3418] Don't question me. [3419] The blind have no notion of
time. [3421] The things of time are hidden from them too.

[3422] Well just fancy that! [3423] I could have sworn it was
the opposite.

[3424] I'm going.

[3425] Where are we?

[3426] I couldn't tell you.

[3427] It isn't by any chance the place known as the Board.

[3428] Never heard of it.

[3429] What is it like?

[3430] (Looking round) [3431] You couldn't describe it. [3432] It's
like nothing. [3433] There's nothing. [3434] There's a tree.

[3435] Then it's not the Board.

[3436] (Sagging) [3437] Some diversion!

[3438] Where is my menial?

[3439] He's about somewhere.

[3440] Why doesn't he answer when I call?

[3441] I don't know. [3442] He seems to be sleeping. [3443] Perhaps
he's dead.

[3444] What happened exactly?