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[0211] if I could relate it situate it in relation ^{relate it} to that of my abode.
[0212] Did I wait somewhere for this place to be ready to receive me?
[0213] Or did it wait for me to come and people it?[0214] By far the better
of these hypotheses, from the point of view of usefulness, is
the former, and I shall often have occasion to use it make use ^employ
of it.[0215] But both are distasteful.

[0216] I shall say therefore that our
beginnings coincide, that this place was made for me and I for it,
at the same instant.[0217] And the sounds I do not yet know have not
yet made themselves heard.[0218] But they will change nothing.[0219] The cry
changed nothing, even the first time.[0220] And my surprise.^?[0221] I must have
been expecting it.

[0222] It is no doubt time I gac^ve a companion to Malone.[0223] But first I
shall tell of an incident that has only occurred once, so far.
[0224] I await its recurrence without impatience.[0225] Two shapes then, ob-
long like l^man, entered into collision before me.[0226] They fell and I
saw them no more.[0227] I naturally thought of the pseudo-couple Mercier-
Camier.

[0228] The next time they enter the field, moving slowly towards
one ^each another, I shall know they are going to collide, fall and dis-
appear, and perhaps that ^{this perhaps} will enable me to observe them better.
[0229] False ^Wrong.[0230] I continue to see Malone as darkly as the first time.

[0231] My
eyes being fixed always in the same direction, I can only see I
shall not say clearly, but as clearly as the visibility permits,
that which takes place directly ^immediately in front of me, that is to say,
in the present case before us, the collision, followed by the fall
and disappearance.

[0232] Of their approach I shall never obtain other
than a confused glimpse, out of the corner of the eye, and what an
eye.[0233] For they too must have arrived along a curve, ^{two curves,} and needless to ^say
say right up beside ^{hard by against} me.[0234] For the visibility, unless it is the state
of my ^eyesight, does only permits me to see what is right up beside ^{hard by against}
me.[0235] O^I may add that my seat seems ^{wd. seem} to be somewhat raised ^elevated, in relation
to the surrounding ground, if ground is what it is.

[0236] Perhaps it is
water or some other liquid.[0237] With the result that, in order to ob-
tain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should
lower my eyesa a little.[0238] But I no longer lower my eyes.In a word

[0239] In a word