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[0466] out, with my eyes my hair, without leaving a trace, fallen so
far so deep that I heard nothing, perhaps are falling still,
my hair slowly like soot still, of the fall of my ears heard
nothing.[0467] No need, I feel my mean soul still, [⁁] ^{[place = supralinear] Mean words, and needless, from the mean old spirit,} I invented love,
music, the smell of flowering currant, to escape from me.

[0468] Oe ^{[place = overwritten] r}gans, a without, it's ^{[place = supralinear] it's} easy to imagine, others, a g ^{[place = overwritten] G}od, it's
unavoidable, you imagine them, it's easy, the trouble dies ^{[place = supralinear] worst is dulled,}
away, you doze away, an instant.[0469] Yes, God, fomenter of calm, I n
never believed, not an instant.[0470] I shall make no more pauses
either.[0471] Can I keep nothing then, nothing of what has carried ^{[place = supralinear] borne}
my poor thouhgts , bent beneath my words, while I hid?

[0472] I shall ^{[place = supralinear] I'll}
dry thes e these streaming sockets too, bung them ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁]up}, there, it's
done, no more tears, I'm a book ^{[place = supralinear] big} talking ball, talking about
things that do not exist, or that exist perhaps, that is ^{[place = supralinear] impossible to know,} not
beside the point.[0473] Ah yes, quick let me change my tune.[0474] And after
all why a ball, rather than something else, and why big?

[0475] Why
not a cylinder, a small cylinder?[0476] An egg, a medium-sized egg?
[0477] No no, that's the old nonsense, I always knew I was round, solid
and round, without daring to say so, smooth and whole ^{[place = supralinear] no asperities,}, no apert- ^{[place = supralinear] openings}
ures, invisible perhaps, or as vast as Sirius in the Great Dog,
these expressions mean nothing.

[0478] All that matters is for me to ^{[place = supralinear] that I am}
be hard[ ^{[place = supralinear] 2}] and round[ ^{[place = supralinear] 1}], there are certainly ^{[place = supralinear] must be} reasons for that, for
my being hard[ ^{[place = supralinear] 2}] and round[ ^{[place = supralinear] 1}] rather than of some irregular shape and
liable ^{[place = supralinear] subject} to the dents and bulges caused by the various kinds of ^{[place = supralinear] incident to shock}
collision, but I have done with reasons.All the rest can be ^{[place = supralinear] I renounce}
discarded, including this ridiculous black which I thought for
a moment worthier than grey to enfold me.

[0479] All the rest can be ^{[place = supralinear] I renounce}
discarded, including this ridiculous black which I thought for
a moment worthier than grey to enfold me.