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[2222] the first loopings of the loop, so help me God. [2223] I was not
afraid. [2224] It was above a racecourse, my mother held me by the
hand. [2225] She kept saying, It's a miracle, a miracle. [2226] Then I
changed my mind. [2227] We were not often of the same mind. [2228] One day we
were walking along the road, up a hill of extraordinary
steepness, near home I imagine, my memory is full of steep hills,
I get them confused. [2230] I said, The sky is further away than you
think, is it not, mama?

[2231] It was without malice, I was simply
thinking of all the leagues that separated me from it. [2232] She re-
plied, to me her son, It is precisely as far away as it appears
to be. [2233] She was right. [2234] But at the time I was aghast. [2235] I can still
see the spot, opposite Tyler's gate. [2236] A market-gardener, he had
only one eye and wore side-whiskers. [2237] That's the idea, rattle on.

[2238] You could see the sea, the islands, the headlands, the isthmuses,
the coast stretching away to north and south and the crooked
moles of the harbour. [2239] We were on our way home from the
butcher's. [2240] My mother? [2241] Perhaps it is just another story, told me
by someone who found it funny. [2242] The stories I was told, at one
time! And all funny, not one not funny. [2243] In any case here I am
back in the shit. [2244] The aeroplane, on the other hand, has just
passed over at two hundred miles an hour perhaps.

[2245] It's a good
speed, for the present day. [2246] I am with it in spirit, naturally.
[2247] All the things I was always with in spirit. [2248] In body no. [2249] Not such
a fool. [2250] Here is the programme anyhow, the end of the programme.
[2251] They think they can confuse me and make me lose sight of my pro-
grammes. [2252] Proper cunts whoever they are. [2253] Here it is. [2254] Visit, variou
remarks, Macmann continued, agony recalled, Macmann continued,