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[0153] of course.[0154] But the mere fact of asking myself such a question sets
me wondering ^{gives me to reflect}.[0155] It is in vain I tell myslef that its only purpose
is to stimulate the lagging discourse, this excellent explanation
does not satisfy me.[0156] Can it be I am the prey of a genuine preoccupat-
ion, of a need to know so to speak ^{as one might say}?[0157] I don't know.[0158] I'll try something
else.[0159] If one day a change were to occur ^{take place}, proceeding ^resulting from a principle
of disorder already present, or on its way, what then?

[0160] All ^That would ^{seem
to [⁁]} depend on the nature of the change in question.[0161] No, here all change
would be fatal and land me back, there and then, in ^all the fun of the ^{among the swings and}
fair ^{the roundabouts}.[0162] I'll try something else.[0163] Has nothing really changed since I
have been here?[0164] ^No,[⁁] F^frankly, hand on heart, wait a second, no, nothing,
to my knowledge.[0165] But, as I have said, the place may well be vast,
as it may well ^really measure twelve feet in diameter.

[0166] As far as discern-
ing its limits is concerend, it comes to the same thing.[0167] It pleases ^{I like}
me to think I occupy the centre, but nothing is less certain.[0168] In
a sense I would be better off on ^at the d^edge ^{circumference}, since my eyes are always
fixed in the same direction.[0169] But I am certainly oⁿot on ^at the edge ^{circumference}.[0170] For
if I were then Malone, wheeling about me as he does, would exit ^issue
froù from the enclosure ^enceinte at every revolution, which is manifestly
impossible.

[0171] But does he really ^{in fact} wheel, does he not perhaps simply
pass before me in a straight line?[0172] No, he wheels, I feel it, and
about me, like a planet about its sun.[0173] And if he made a noise,[⁁] ^{as he goes,} I
would hear him all the time, on my right hand, at my back, on my
left hand, before seeing him again.[0174] But he makes none, for I am
not deaf, of that I am convinced, that is to say half convinced.

[0175] In any case from centre to edge ^{circumference} it is a far cry and I may wd^ell be
situated somewhere between them the two.[0176] It is equally possible,
I do not deny it, that I too am in endless ^perpetual motion, accompanied by
Malone, as the earth by its moon.[0177] In which case there would be no
further grounds for my complaining about the disorder of the lights,
^{this being} due simply to my insistence on regarding them as always the same
lights and viewed always from the same point.

[0178] All is possible, or
very nearly ^almost.[0179] But the best is to think of myself as fixed and at
the centre of this place, whatever its shape and scope ^extent.This is

[0180] This is