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[0635] and rooting everywhere.
[0637] And the cupboard, far from containing my
boot, is empty.
[0638] No, I am now without this boot, just as I am now
without certain other objects of less value, 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 I 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 with which, as a child, I used to blow bubbles, an odd
bubble.
[0642] Never mind, this bowl is now mine, wherever it comes from.
[0643] A number of my treasures are derived from the same source.
[0644] I also
discovered a lilttle packet tied up in age-yellowed hnewspaper.
[0645] It reminds me of something, but of what?
[0646] I drew it over beside the
bed and felt it with the knob of my stick.
[0647] And my hand understood,
it unederstood softness and lightness, better I think than if it
ha d had touched the thing directly, fingering it and weighing it
in its palm.
[0648] I resolved, I don't know why, not to undo it.
[0649] I sent
it back into the corner, with the rest.
[0650] I shall speak of it
again perhaps, when the time comes.
[0655] I told myself too taht [ ] I must make better speed.
[0656] True lives
do not tolerate this excess of circumstance.
[0657] It is there the
demon lurks, like the gonococcus in the folds of the prostate.
[0658] My time is limited.
[0659] It is thence that one fine day, when all
nature smiles and shines, the rack lets loose its black unfor-
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