MS-TCD-4662

[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.

[0637] And the cupboard, far from con-
taining my boot, is empty. [0638] No, I have this
boot no longer, just as I am now without this
boot, just as I am now without certain other
objects of less value including which I thought
I had preserved, among them a zinc ring
that shone like silver.

[0639] I note on the other
hand, in the heap, the presence of two or
three objects that had quite forgotten and one
of which at least, the bowl of a pipe,
strikes no chord in my memory. [0640] I do not
remember ever having smoked a tobacco-pipe.

[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
my knob of my stick. [0647] And my hand under-
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.

[0648] I decided not to undo it,
I don't know why. [0649] I sent it back
into the corner, with the rest. [0650] I shall speak
of it again perhaps, when the time comes.