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[1815] is not so short, and the mind more composed.[1816] Resolution number
twenty-three.[1817] And in the meantime the conclusion to be drawn?
[1818] That the only noises Worm has had till ^now are those of mouths, words,
belches, laughs, suckings, bubblings and splutterings?[1819] Correct.
[1820] Not forgetting the groaning of the air beneath the burden.[1821] He's
coming, that's the main thing.

[1822] When on earth later on the storms
rage, drowning momentarily the free expression of opinion, he will
know what is afoot, that the end of the world has not come.[1823] No, in
the place where he is he cannot learn, the head cannot work, he
knows no more than the first day, he merely hears, and suffers,
uncomprehending, that must be possible.

[1824] A head has grown out of
his ear, the better to enrage him, that must be it.[1825] The head is
there, glued to the ear, and in it nothing but rage, that's all
that matters^, for the moment.[1826] It's a transformer in which sound is
turned, without the help of reason, to rage and terror.[1827] That is
all that is required, for the time being.

[1828] The circumvolutionisation
will be seen to later, when they get him out.[1829] Why then
the human voice,[1830] rather than a hyena's howls or the clanging of a
hammer?[1831] Answer, so that the shock may not be too great, when
the ^writhings of true lips me^et his gaze.[1832] They have an answer to
everything, they are among themselves.[1833] And they enjoy talking, they
know there is no worse torment, for one not in the know.

[1834] They are
numerous, all around, holding hands perhaps, an endless chain,
links, taking turns to talk.[1835] They wheel, in jerks, so that the
voice comes always from the same quarter.[1836] But ofetn they all speak
at once, they all say simultaneously the same thing exactly, but
so perfectly together that one would take it for a single voice, a
sⁱngle mouth, if one did not know that God alone can
fill the rose of the winds, without moving from his place.

[1837] One,
b^ut not Worm, who says nothing, knows nothing, yet.[1838] Similarly turn
about they benefit by the peephole, those who care to.While
one speaks another spies, the one no doubt whose voice is next ^due
and whose remarks possibly will not be without
refern^ece to what he may possibly have seen, this depending on

[1839] While
one speaks another spies, the one no doubt whose voice is next ^due
and whose remarks possibly will not be without
refern^ece to what he may possibly have seen, this depending on