
[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, had 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.
[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,
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