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[0218] varied, very varied. [0219] And all sorts of birds. [0220] They come and
perch on the window-sill, asking for food!^! [0221] It is touching.
[0222] They rap on the window-pane, with their beaks. [0223] I never give
them anything. [0224] But they still come. [0225] What are they waiting
for? [0226] They are not vultures. [0227] Not only am I left here, but I
am looked after!^! [0228] This is how it is done now.

[0229] The door half
opens, a hand puts a dish on the little table left there for
that purpose, takes away the dish of the previous day, and the
door closes again. [0230] This is done for me every day, at the same
time probably. [0231] When I want to eat I hook the table with my
stick and draw it to me. [0232] It is on castors, it comes squeaking ^and[⁁][^⁁and]
m^l[⁁]lurching towards me. [0233] When I need it no longer I send it back to
its place by the door. [0234] It is soup.

[0235] They must know I am tooth-
less. [0236] I eat it one time out of two, out of three, on an average.
[0237] [^✓] When my chamber-pot is full I put it on the table, beside the
dish. [0238] Then I go twenty-four hours without a pot. [0239] No, I have two
poy poy pots. [0240] They have thought of everything. [0241] I am naked in the
bed, in the blankets, whose number I increase and diminish as the
seasons come and go. [0242] I am never hot, never cold. [0243] I don't wash,
but I don't get dirty.

[0244] If I get dirty somewhere I rub the part
with my beg ^finger wet with spittle. [0245] What matters is to eat and excrete.
[0246] Dish and pot, dish and pot, these ^[⎰] are the poles. [0247] In the beginning
it was different. [0248] The woman came right into the room, bustled
about, enquired about my needs, my wants.

[0249] I succeeded in the
end in getting them into her head, my needs and my wants. [0250] It
was not easy. [0251] She did not understand. [0252] Until the day I found the
terms, the accents, that fitted her. [0253] All that must be half
imagination. [0254] It was she who got me this long stick. [0255] It has a