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[2153] believe I've piped up beforebt they're finished.they've done with me.[2154] The master
in any case, no question we don't intend, pulling in their horns they [rae], listen to them hedging
are, no question we don't intend, unless absolutely necessary driven to it,
to make the mistake of einquiring into him, he'd turn out to
be a mere high official, we'd end up by having need of needing God,
we may have lost all pride admittedly, but there are certain in- certain depths we [↓] and though admittedly we have lost all sense of decency
famies one prefers to avoid?x, there still are certain depths we prefer not to sink to.
nevertheless
[2155] Let us stick keep to the family circle,
it's more intimate, we know eone another by now, no surprises
to be feared, the will has been opened, nothing for anybody.
[2156] This eye, curious how this eye invites inspection, delmands
sympathy[;], solicits attention,[l]impores implores assistance, to do what,
it's not clear, to stop weeping, have a quick look round, blaze goggle briefly
briefly an instant and be closed for ever.
[2157] It's it you see and it alone,
in this face, it's from it you set out to look for a face, to
it you return having found nothing, nothing worth while, nothing
but a kind of ashen smear, perhaps it's long grey hair, hanging
in a tangle about round the mouth, greasy with ancient tears, or the
fringe of a mantles pread like a veil mantle spread like a veil,
or fingers opening and shutting closing to try and shut out the world,
, or all together, fingers, hair and rags, mingled inextricably.
[2158] Suppositions all equally inane, it's enough to enounce them to
regret having spoken, familiar torment, a different past, it's
often to be wished, different from yours, when you find it out. discover it (what it is)
when you find out what it was.
[2159] He is haireless, and naked and his hands, laid flat on his knees once
and for all, are in no danger of mischief getting into miaschief.
[2160] Then where is And the face?
[2161] Balls, all all balls, I don't believe in the
eye either, , there's nothing here, nothing to see, nothing that to see with
sees, it's a blessed coincidence, when you think what it would
be, a world without looker-on [⁁] a witness onlooker ([fxx] gawker) spectator, and vice versa, brrr![2162] No spectator
then, and what is more better still no spectalecle, good riddance.
[2163] If this noise
could stop there'd be nothing more to say.[2164] I wonder what the all the chat
is all about at the moment.[2165] Worm presumably.[2166] Maghood is being abandoned,.
[2167] And I await my turn.[2168] Yes, I do not despair, all things considered,
of drawing their attention to my case, some fine day.Not that it
[2169] Not that it
nevertheless
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