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[2124] where they are, what they're doing or why
everything is going so badly, so abominably
badly, that must be it.[2125] So they build up
hypotheses that collapse one on top of the
other, it's human, a lobster couldn't
do it.

[2126] We're in a nice state ^mess, the whole
lot of us, is it possible we're all in the
same boat, no, perish such a thought,
we're in a nice mess each one in his
own way.

[2127] I myself have been scandal-
ously bungled, they must be beginning
to realize it, me on whom all depends (?),
better still, about whom, much better,
all turns, giddily, yes yes, don't
protest, all whirls, it's a head, I'm
in a head, what an illumination,
sssst, pissed on out of hand.

[2128] Ah
this blind voice, and these moments
of held breath when everybody listens
wildly, and the voice that begins to
fumble again, without knowing what
it's looking for, and again the tiny
silence, and the listening, for what,

[2128] no one knows, a sign of life perhaps,
that must be it, a sign of life
escaping from one, and sure to be denied
if it came, that's it surely, if all
that could only stop, xxx there would be
peace, no, it'd be no there'd be no
believing in it, no slipping the listening,

[2128] for the voice to begin again, for a sign of
life, for some one to betray himself,
or for something else, anything, what else
can there be but signs of life, a fall the
fall of a pin, the stirring of a leaf, or the
little x squeak th cry that frogs give

[2128] when the scythe cuts them in two, or when
when they are spiked, in the water, with
a spear, one could multiply the examples,
it would even be an excellent idea,
but there it is, one can't.

[2129] Perhaps it
would be better to be blind, the blind hear
better, no lack of information full of xxx
information we are, we have piano tuners
up our sleeve, they strike A and hear G,
two minutes later, there's nothing to be
seen in any case, this eye is an oversight.

[2130] But it isn't Worm speaking.[2131] True, up to
now, who says it denies it, it would be
premature.[2132] Nor I, for that matter,
[2133] and Mahood is notoriously aphonic (?).
[2134] But the question is not there, for the moment, xxx
no one knows where it is, but it's there, for the
time being.

[2135] Yes, there's great fun to be got
from an eye, it weeps for the least little thing,
a yes, a no, the yesses make it weep, the
noes too, the perhapses particularly, with
the result that the motives for these stupefying
xxx do not motifying (?) of these
staggering pronouncements does not