MS-UoR-1477-4

[0047] Christman bustle in off the street when no one was looking out
of the cold and wet pushed open the door like anyone else and
straight for the table neither right nor left with all the forms
and the ballpoints at the end of their chains sat down on the first
vacant d^seat and were taking a look round for a change befoe^re dozing
away

[0050] perhaps fear of assault or ejection having clearly no business
in the place not to say nothing of the personal appearance and
monopolizing into the bargain space tht^at could ill be spared so
a look round for once at your fellow men and women thanking God
once again bad and all as you were you were not as they till it

[0050] began to dawn that for all the t^attention you were getting you might
as well not have been there at all the eyes passing over you and
going through you as though you were so much thin air never once
resting on you with the wonted abhorrence but passing by you or over
you or th clean through you like so much thin air wa/^s that the time
or was that another time a later time and earlier time

[0053] that time
in the Library that time you slipped in to the Public Library
in off the street out of the cold and wet when no one was looking
what was it then ^{you were never etc} something to do with dust something the dust
said sitting at the big round table with a bec^vy of old ond^es poring
on the page and not a sound

[0056] ^{not a sound} only the old breath and the leaves turn-
ing and then this dust whole place suddenly full of dust when
you opened your eyes nothing to be seen from floor to ceiling only
dust and not a sound only what was it it said come and gone was
that it something like that something to that effect come and gone
come and gone no one come and gone in no time gone in no time