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[1612] to clutch the grass, so now he pulled them up again the better
to feel the rain pelting down on his palms, also called the
hollows of the hands, or the flats, it all depends. [1613] And in the
midst -^[] but I was nearly forgetting the hair^, which from the point
of view of colour was to white very much as the hour's gloom to
black and from the point of view of length very long what is more,
very long behind and very long on either side.

[1614] And on a dry and
windy day it would have gone romping in the grass almost like
grass itself. [1615] But the rain glued it to the ground and churned it
up with the earth and grass into a kind of muddy pulp, not a muddy
pulp, a kind of muddy pulp.

[1616] And in the midsts^{[₰ ₰]} of his suffering,
for one does not remain so long in such a position without being
incommoded, he began to wish that the rain would never cease
nor consequently his sufferings or pain, for the cause of his pain
was almost certainly the rain, recumbency in itself not being
particularly unpleasant, as if that^[⁁][^ere] ^there existed a relation between that
which suffers and that which causes to suffer.

[1617] For the rain could
cease without his ceasing to suffer, just as he could cease to suf-
fer without the rain's ceasing on that account. [1618] And on him already
this important quarter-truth was perhaps beginning to dawn.

[1619] For
while re deploring he could nt^ot spend the rest of his life (which
would thereby have been agreeably abridged) under this heavy,
cold (without being icy) and perpendicular rain, now supine, now
prone, he was half^[⁁]quarter[^quarter]-inclined to wonder if he was not mistaken in
making it re holding it responsible for his sufferings and if
in reality his discomfort was not the effect of quite diffe a