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[1578] That's to lull me, till I imagine I hear myself saying, myself at
last, to myself at last, that it can't be they, speaking thus, that
it can only be I, speaking thus.[1579] And ^{[place = supralinear] h} if I could find a voice of
my own, in ^{[place = supralinear] all} this choir ^{[place = supralinear] clamour}, it would be the end of their troubles, and
of mine.[1581] That's why there are all these little silences, to make
me break them.[1582] They think I can't bear silence, h ^{[place = overwritten] t}hat ^{[place = supralinear] [⁁] someda some day, somehow,} my horror of
silence will force to break it some day, no matter how ^{[place = supralinear] some some}.

[1583] That's
whu ^{[place = overwritten] y} they are always breaking off, to try and drive me to ^{[place = supralinear] that} extremities ^{[place = supralinear] y}.
[1584] But they don't dare be silent for long, the whole fabric might
collapse.[1585] It's true I hate these chasms they all bend over, on
the alert for the murmur of a man.[1586] It isn't silence, it's pitfalls,
into which nothing would please me better than to fall, with the
little cry that might be taken for human, like a wounded ouistiti,
the first and last, and vanish for good and all, having sqeaked .

[1587] Well, if they ever suceed succeed in getting me to give a voice to
Worm, in a moment of euphoria, who knows, px ^{[place = overwritten] e}rhaps I'll make it
mine, in a moment of confusion.[1588] That ^{[place = supralinear] ere} we have the stake.[1589] But they
won't succeed.[1590] Were they able to get Mahood to speak. ^{[place = inline] ?}[1591] It seems to
me they didn't ^{[place = supralinear] not}.[1592] I think Mx ^{[place = overwritten] u}rphy spoke from time to time ^{[place = supralinear] now and then}, the others
too perhaps, I don't remember, but it was clumsily done, I could
see the ventriloquist.[1593] I feel it ^{[place = supralinear] '}s about to begin.

[1594] They must con-
sider me sufficiently stupefied, with all their balls about being
and existing.[1595] Yes, now that I've forge ^{[place = overwritten] o}tten who Worm is, where
he is, what he's like, I'll begin to be he.[1596] Anything rather than these
college quips.[1597] Quick;, a place.[1598] With no way in, no way out,
a safe place.[1599] Not like Eden.[1600] And Worm inside.[1601] Feeling nothing,
knp ^{[place = supralinear] o}wing nothing, capable of nothing, wanting nothing.[1602] Until the
instant he hears the sound that will never stop.Then it's the

[1603] Then it's the