
[0541] have pity on me.
[0542] He didn't understand.
[0543] I thought of the food I
had refused.
[0544] It I took a pebble from my pocket and sucked it.
[0545] It was smooth, from having been sucked so long, by me, and beaten
by the storm.
[0546] A little pebble in your mouth, round and smooth,
appeases, soothes, makes you forget your hunger, forget your thirst.
[0547] The man came towards me, angered by my slowness.
[0548] Him too they were
watching, through the windows.
[0549] Somewhere someone laughed.
[0550] Inside
me too someone was laughing.
[0551] I took my sick leg in my hands and
passed it over the frame.
[0552] I went.
[0553] I had forgotten where I was going.
[0554] I stopped to think.
[0555] It is difficult to think riding, for me.
[0556] When I
try and think riding I lose my balance and fall.
[0560] I went on my way, that way of which I knew nothing, qua
way, which was nothing more than a surface, bright or dark, smooth or
rough, and always dear to me, in spite of all, and the dear sound of
that which goes and is gone, with a brief dust, when the weather is
dry.
[0561] There I am then, before I knew I had left the town, on the
canal-bank.
[0562] The canal goes through the town, I know I know, there are
even two.
[0563] But then these hedges, these fields?
[0564] Don't torment yourself. [place = overwritten] ,
Molloy.
[0565] Suddenly I see, it was my right leg the stiff one, then.
[0566] Toiling towards me along the tow-path I saw a team of little grey
donkeys, on the other bank, and I heard angry cries and dull blows.
[0566|001] I
got down.
[0567] I put my foot to the ground the better to see the approaching
barge, so gently approaching that the water was unruffled.
[0568] It was a
cargo of nails and timber, on its way to some carpet [place = overwritten] n [place = overwritten] nter I suppose.
[0569] My
eyes caught a donkey's eyes, they fell to his little feet, their brave
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