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[0906] knowing how, or why. [0907] It's with your head you hear it, not your ears,
you can't stop it, but it stops itself, when it chooses. [0908] It makes no
difference therefore whether I listen to it or not, I shall hear it a
always, no thunder can deliver me, until it stops. [0909] But nothing compels
me to speak of it, when it doesn't suit me. [0910] And it doesn't suit me, at
the moment. [0911] No, what suits me, at the moment, is to be done with this
business of the moon which was left unfinished, by me, for me.

[0912] And if
I get done with it less successfully than if I had all my wits about me,
I shall none the less get done with it, as best I can, at least I think
so. [0913] That moon then, all things considered, filled me suddenly with
amaze, with surprise, if you prefer. [0914] Yes, I was considering it, after
my fashion, with indiffer4^ence, seeing it againk^, in a way, in my heq^ad,
when a great fright came suddenly upon me.

[0915] And deeming this deserved
to be looked into, I looked into it and quickly made the following
discovery, among others, but I confine myself to the following, that
this moon which had just sailed gallant and full past my window had
appeared to me the night before, or the night before that, yes, more
likely, all young and slender, on her back, a shaving.

[0916] And then I had
said, Now I see, he has waited for the new moon before launching forth
on unknown ways, leading south. [0917] And then a little later, Perhaps I
should go to mother tomorrow. [0918] For all things hang together, by the
operation of the Holy Ghost, as the saying is. [0919] And if I failed to
mention this detail in its proper place, it is because you cannot mention
everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not
worth mentioning and those even less so.

[0920] For if you set out to mention
everything you would never have be done, and that's what counts, to have
be done, to have done. [0921] Oh I know, even when you mention only a few of
the things there are, you do not get done either, I know, I know.