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[1097] really only one thing that worries me, and that
is the [thou] prospect of [hanging] being [hanged] [xxx] [↑]throttled,
if I should happen ever happen to
shorten further.[1098] Asphyxia![1099] I who
was always the respiratory type,[1100] witness
this thoracic cage (?) mine still, together with
the abdomen.
[1101] I who murmured, when
I remembered, at every inhalation,
Here comes the oxygen again, and each time
I breathed out, There go the impurities,
the blood is bright again bright red again.
[1108] At my age, to start masturbating manstuprating again,
it would be indecent.[1109] And fruitless.
[1110] After all, [perhaps] one never knows.[1111] With
good steady pulling a yo heave ho
and concentrating with all my strength
on a horse's rump, at the moment when
the tail rises, who knows, I might not
go empty-handed away.
[1112] Is it [xxx], Heavens, I almost
[x] do I feel it flutter?
felt it flutter![1113] Does this mean they didn't
geld me?[1114] I could have sworn they had
gelt me.[1115] But perhaps I am getting them muddled up
mixed up with other scrota (bags, pouches,
purses).[1116] Not another stir out of it [any] in any
case.[1117] I'll concentrate again.[1118] A Cleveland.
[1119] Come, come, [xxx] a little cooperation, please,
finish dying, it's the least you can might do, after
all the trouble they've taken, to make bring you to life.[1120] The worst is over.
[you live]
[1121] They've assassinated you often enough, suicided sufficiently assassinated
you often enough
you, sufficiently suicided you, for you to
stand now on your own feet, like a big boy.
[1122] That's what I tell myself.[1123] And I add, in
a passion, Slough off this immortal
inertia, it's out of place, in this society.
[1124] They can't do everything.[1125] They have put
you on the right road, they have held led you
by the hand to the very edge of the precipice,
now it's up to you, with an unassisted last
step, to show them your gratitude.
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