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[1656] ed I'll look for it, if I don't find it I won't have it, I'll make
the correction, with the other, if anything remains of it.
[1657] Quiet,
quiet.
[1658] My exercise-book, I don't see it, but I feel it in my left
hand, I don't know where it comes from, I didn't have it when I
came here, but I feel it is mine.
[1659] That's the style, as if I were
sweet and seventy.
[1660] In th[⁁]at[at] case the bed would be mine too, and the
little table, the dish, the pots, the cupboard, the blankets.
[1661] No,
nothing of all that is mine.
[1662] But the exercise-book is mine, I can't
explain.
[1663] The two pencils then, the exercise-book and then the stick,
which I did not have either when I came here, but which I consider
mine[⁁],[,] [1664] I must have described it long ago.
[1665] I am quiet, I have time,
but I shall describe as little as possible.
[1666] It is with me in the
bed, under the blankets, there was a time I used to rub myself
against it, saying, It's a little woman.
[1667] But it is so long that
it sticks out under the pillow and finishes far behind me.
[1668] I con-
tinue from memory.
[1669] It is black dark.
[1670] I can hardly see the window.
[1671] It must be letting in the night again.
[1672] Even if I had time to rum-
mage in my possessions, to bring them over to the bed one by one
or tangled together as is often the way with forsaken things,
I would not see anything.
[1673] And perhaps indeed I have the time, let
us assume I have the time, and proceed as if I had not.
[1674] But it
cannot be so long since I checked and went through all my things[⁁],[,]
[₰] in the light, in anticipation of this hour.
[1675] But since then I
must have forgotten it all.
[1677] A needle stuck into two corks to pre-
vent it from sticking into me, for if the point pricks less than
the eye, no, that's wrong, for if the point pricks more than the
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