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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.
[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.
[1619] For
while re deploring he could ntot 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
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