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[0922] But it's a change of muck. [0923] And if all muck is the same muck that
doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one
heap to another a little further on, from time to time, fluttering you
might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.

[0924] And if you are
wrong, and you are wrong, I mean when you record circumstances better
left unspoken, and leave unspoken others, rightly, if you like, but how
shall I say, for no good reason, yes, rightly, but for no good reason,
as for example that new moon, it is often in good faith, excellent faith.

[0925] Had there then elapsed, between that night on the mountain, that night
when I saw A and C and then made up my mind to go and see my mother, and
this other night, more time than I had thought, namely fourteen full days,
or nearly? [0926] And if so, what had happened to those fourteen days, or
nearly, and where had they flown? [0927] And what possible chance was there
of finding a place for them, no matter what their burden, in the so
rigorous chain of events I had just undergone?

[0928] Was it not wiser to
suppose either that the moon seen two nights before, far from being new
as I had thought, was on the eve of being full, or else that the moon
seen from Lousse's house, far from being full, as it had appeared to me,

[0928] was in fact merely entering on its first quarter, or else finally that
here I had to do with two moons, as far from the new as from the full
and so alike in outline that the naked eye could hardly tell between
them, and that whatever was at variance with these hypotheses was so
much smoke and delusion.

[0929] It was at all events with the aid of these
considerations that I grew calm again and was restored, in the face
of nature's pranks, to my old ataraxy, for what it was worth. [0930] And it
came back also to my mind, as sleep stole over it again, that my nights
were moonless and the moon foreign, to my nights, so that I had never
seen, drifting past the window, carrying me back to other nights, other