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[2297] dead, so as in the end to be a little as I
always was and never could be, without
fear of worse to come peacefully in the
place where I always was and never
could be a rest in peace, [ADDITION]Addition on page
29vso as in the end to be a little as I always
was and never could be, without fear
of worse to come quietly in the p
peacefully in the place where I always
was and never could rest
[2297] [I do] no, I
don't know, it's simpler than that,
I wanted myself, in my own country land,
for a short moment brief space, I didn't want to die
[2297]
a stranger among strangers in the
midst of strangers, a stranger in my own
midst, surrounded by invaders, no,
I don't know what I wanted, I
don't know what I thought, I must
have wanted so many things, [I]
[2297]
imagined so many things, while I was
talking, without knowing exactly
what, enough to go blind, with longings
and visions, mingling and merging
in one another, I'd have been better
employed minding what I was saying.
[2298]
And anyway it didn't happen like that, it
happened as it is happening now, that is
to say, I don't know, one mustn't believe
what I say, I don't know what I'm
saying, I'm doing as I always did,
I'm going on as best I can.
[2301.1] If instead
of having to speak I had something
to do, with my hands, or my feet,
sorting out things for example, or simply
arranging things, suppose for the sake
of argument I had to move things
from one place to another, then I'd
[2301.1]
know where I was, and how far I had
got, no, not necessarily, I can see
that from here, they'd contrive things in
such a way that I couldn't suspect
the two vessels, the one to be emptied and
the one to be filled, of being in reality
[2301.1]
one and the same, it would be water,
water, with my thimble [xxx] I'd go
and [xxx] in one draw it from one container and go and
pour it into another, or there would be
four, or a hundred, half of them
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