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[0144] same direction, the same attitude.[0145] But the
play of the lights is truly unpredictable.
[0146] It is only fair to say that to eyes less knowing
than mine they would probably pass unnoticed
unseen.[0147] But even to mine do they not
sometimes do so?[0148] They are perhaps unwavering
and fixed and my fitful perceiving the
cause of their inconstancy.[0149] I hope I may have
occasion to come back to this question.

[0150] But I
shall remark without further delay, in order
to be sure of doing so, that I am relying on
these lights, as indeed on all similar sources
of credible perplexity, to help me continue
and perhaps even conclude.

[0151] And [now] I continue,
being obliged to. I have to.[0152] Yes, where was I,
from the unexceptionable order that has prevailed
here up to date, may I infer that such will always
be the case?[0153] I may of course.[0154] But the mere fact of
asking myself such a question gives me to reflect.

[0155] It is in vain I tell myself that its only purpose
is to stimulate the lagging discourse, this
excellent explanation does not satisfy me.[0156] Can
it be I am the prey of a genuine preoccupation,
of a need to know as one might say?[0157] I don't
know.[0158] I'll try something else.

[0159] If one day a
change were to take place, resulting from a
principle of disorder already present, or on its way,
what then?[0160] All would ^{That would seem to} depend on the nature of
the change in question.[0161] No, here all change
would be fatal and land me back, there and
then, in the fun of the fair among the swings
and the roundabouts.[0162] I'll try something else.
[0163] [xxx] nothing really changed since I have been here.

[0164] No, frankly, hand on heart, wait a second, no,
nothing, to my knowledge.[0165] But, as I have
said, the place may well be vast, as it may
really measure twelve feet in diameter.[0166] As
far as discerning its limits is concerned, it comes
to the same thing.[0167] It pleases m I like to think
I occupy the centre, but nothing is less certain.

[0168] In a sense I wd. be better off at the edge, since my
eyes are always fixed in always fixed in the same
direction.[0169] But I am certainly not at the edge.
[0170] For if I were then Malone would issue from the
enceinte at then Malone, wheeling about me as
he does, would issue from the enceinte at
every revolution, which is manifestly
impossible.[0171] But does he in fact wheel, does he
not perhaps simply pass before in a straight line?