MS-TCD-4662

[0614] limp, drifting, as though tossed by the earth. [0615] And when,
after a halt, he started off again,
it was like a big thistle-down
snatched by the wind from the place
where it had settled.

[0616] I have rummaged a little in
my things, sorting them
out and pulling them over to me,
to have a good look at them. [0617] I was
not far wrong in thinking that I knew
them well, ^{by heart}, and could
speak of them, at any moment, without
looking at. [0618] But I wanted to make sure.

[0619] It was well I did. [0620] For now I know that
the image of these objects, with which I have
lulled myself until now, though
accurate on the whole, was not completely
so.

[0621] Now I should be sorry to let slip
this unique occasion which seems to offer me the
possibility of something suspiciously
like a true statement at last,
I would feel I had failed
in my duty. [0622] I want this matter to
free from all suspicions of approximation.

[0623] I
want, when the great day comes, to be in a
position to announce clearly, without addition
or omission, all that its
weary prelude has brought me,
and left me, in the way of material
goods. [0624] It must be an obsession.

[0625] I see then that I had attributed
to myself certain objects which are no
longer in my possession, as far as I
can tell. [0626] Might they not have rolled behind
a piece of furniture? [0627] That would surprise
me. [0628] A boot, for example, can a boot
roll behind a piece of furniture?