Digital Manuscript ProjectMalone meurt / Malone Dies

[0629] And yet I see only one boot.
[0630] And behind
which piece of furniture?
[0631] In this room,
to the best of my knowledge, there is only
one piece of furniture capable of getting
between me and my possessions, I refer to the
cupboard.
[0632] But it so cleaves to the wall wall,
to the two walls, for it is the corner, that
it seems one with them part of them.
[0633] It may
be objected that my button-boot, for it was a
kind of button-boot, is in the cupboard.
[0634] I thought of that.
[0635] But I have gone through it,
my stick has gone through the cupboard,
opening the doors, the drawers, for the first
time perhaps, and rooting everywhere.
[0636] Nothing.
[0641] I remember the soap-pipe from [place = supralinear] with which when as
a child, before I hurled it from me, I
used to blow iridescent bubbles, an occasional
bubble.
[0642] Never mind, this bowl is now mine,
wherever it comes from.
[0643] A number of my
treasures have the same origin.
[0644] I also discovered
discovered a little packet wrapped in tied up
in yellow newspaper.
[0645] It reminds me of
something, w but of what?
[0646] I brought it over
beside the bed, and felt it with the head of knob of my stick.
[0647] And my hand under-
my
stood, it understood softness and lightness,
better I think than if it had touched
the thing directly, fingering it and weighing
it in its palm.
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