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[2211] I had solved it, to my satisfaction. [2212] Sometimes I took my autocycle,
sometimes the train, sometimes the motor-coach, just as sometimes too I left
on foot, or on my bicycle, silently, in the night. [2213] For when you are beset
with enemies, as I am, you cannot leave on your autocycle, even in the night,
without being noticed, unless you employ it as an ordinary bicycle, which
is absurd.

[2214] But if I was in the habit of first settling this delicate
question of transport, it was never without having, if not fully sifted,
at least taken into account the factors on which it depended. [2215] For how can
you decide on the way of setting out if you do not first know where you are
going, or at least with what purpose you are going there? [2216] But in the
present case I was tackling the problem of transport with no other
preparation than the languid con ^{[place = overwritten] g}nizance I had taken of Gaber's report.

[2217] I
would be able to recover the minutest details of this report when I wished.
[2218] But I had not yet troubled to do so, I had avoided doing so, saying, It's ^{[place = supralinear] The affair}
a banal affair ^{[place = supralinear] is banal}. [2219] To try and solve the problem of transport under such
conditions was madness. [2220] Yet that was what I was doing. [2221] I was losing my
head already.

[2222] I liked leaving on my autocycle, I was partial to this way of getting
about. [2223] And in my ignorance of the reasons against it, ^{[place = margin left] [₰]} I decided to leave
on my autocycle. [2224] Thus was inscribed, on the threshold of the Molloy affair,
the fatal pleasure principle.

[2225] The sun's beams shone through the rift in the curtains and made
visible the sabbath of the motes. [2226] I concluded from this that the weather
was still fine, ^{[place = margin left] [₰]} and rejoiced. [2227] When you leave on your autocycle fine
weather is to be preferred. [2228] I was wrong, the weather was fine no longer,
the sky was clouding over, soon it would rain. [2229] But for the moment the sun
was still shining. [2230] It was on this that I went, with inconceivable levity,
having nothing else to go on.