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[1756] too late. [1757] But all in due time. [1758] Should I go on I wonder. [1759] I feel
i^I am perhaps attributing to myself things I no longer possess and
reporting as missing others that are not missing. And I feel there
are others, over there in the corner, belonging to a third categor
category, that of those of which I know nothing and with regard
to which therefore there is little danger of my being wrong, or of
my being right.

[1760] And I remind myself also that since I last went th
through my possessions much water has passed beneath Butt Bridge,
in both directions. [1761] For I have sufficiently perished in this room
to know that some things go out, and other things come in, through
I know not what agency. [1762] And among thsoe ^[  ] that go out there are some
that come back, after a more or less prolonged absence, and others
that never come back. [1763] With the result that, among those that come
in, some are familiar to me, others not. [1764] I don't understand.

[1765] And,
stranger still, there exists a whole family of objects, having
apparently very little in common, which have never left me, since
I have been here, but remained quiety quietly in their place, in
the corner, s ^as in any ordinary uninhabited room. [1766] Or else they were
very quick. [1767] How false all that rings. [1768] But there is no guarantee th
things will be ever thus.

[1769] I cannot account in any other way for
the changing aspect of my possessions. [1771] So that, strictly speaking,
it is impossible for me to know, from one moment to the next, what
is mine and what is not, according to my definition. [1772] So I wonder
if I should go on, I mean go on drawing up an inventory correspond-
ing perhaps but faintly to the facts, a^and if I should not rather
cut it short and devote myself to another ^{some other} form of distraction,