
[4137] These questions and others too were separated by more or less
prolonged intervals of time not only from one another, but also from the
answers appertaining to them.
[4138] And the answers did not always follow in the
order of the questions.
[4139] But while looking for the answer, or the answers,
to a given question, I found the answer, or the answers, to a question I
had already asked myself in vain, in the sense that I had not been able
to answer it, or I found another question, or other [|] questions, demanding
in their turn an immediate answer.
[4140] Translating myself now in imagination to the present moment, I declare
the foregoing to have been written with a firm and even satisfied hand, and
a mind calmer than it has been for a long time.
[4141] For I shall be far away,
before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming
to look for me.
[4142] And then Youdi will take care of me, he will not let me
be punished for a fault committed in the execution of my duty.
[4143] And they
can do nothing to my son, rather they will commiserate with him on having
had such a father, and offers of help and expressions of esteem will pour
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