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[0358] Good. [0359] Now that we know where we're going, let's go there. [0360] It's
so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. [0361] It
almost rids you of the wish to go there. [0362] I was distraught, who
am so seldom distraught, from what should I be distraught, and
as to my motions even more uncertain than usual. [0363] The night must
have tired me, at least weakened me, and the sun, hoisting itself
higher and higher in the east, ha^d poisoned me, while I slept.

[0364] I ought to have put the bulk of the rock between it and me before
closing my eyes. [0365] I confuse east and west, the poles too, I invert
them readily. [0366] I was out of sorts. [0367] They are deep, my sorts, a
deep ditch, and I am not often out of them. [0368] That's why I mention
it. [0369] Nevertheless I covered several miles and found myself under
the ramparts. [0370] There I dismounted in compliance with the regulations.

[0371] Yes, on entering and leaving town the police compel cyclists to
dismount, cars to go into bottom gear and horsedrawn vehicles to
slow down to a walk. [0372] The reason for this regulation is I think
this, that the ways into and of course the ways out of this town
are narrow and darkened by enormous vaults, without exception.

[0373] It is a good rule and I observe it meticulously, in spite of the
difficulty I have in advancing on my crutches pushing my bicycle
at the same time. [0374] I managed somehow. [0375] Being ingenious.

[0376] Thus we
cleared these difficult straits, my bicycle and I, together. [0377] But
a little further on I heard myself hailed. [0378] I raised my head and
saw a policeman. [0379] Elliptically speaking, for it was only later,
by way of induction, or of deduction, I forget which, that I knew
what it was. [0380] What are you doing there? he said. [0381] I'm used to that
question, I understood it immediately. [0382] Resting, I said. [0383] Resting,