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Sometimes the two are combined as for example, You first saw the light on such and such a clav and now c, . :ou are on :~our back in the dark. A device perhaps from the incontrovertibilitv of the one to win credence for the other. That then is the proposition. To one on his hack in the dark a voice tells of a past. With occa­ sional allusion to a present and more rareh to a future L3N1 as for example, You will end as vou now are. And in 5 7n313u ~ S9[[!B '~n:I A ~V~OdW:I another dark or in the same another devising it all for L to kindle in his mind this faint uncertainty and embar' compan:'. Quick leave him. rassment. Use of the second person marks the voice. That of Your mind never active at any time is now even less the third that cankerous other. Could he speak to and than ever so. This is the t:'pe of assertion he does not of whom the voice speaks there would be a first. But question. You saw the light on such and such ada: he cannot. He shall not. You cannot. 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Is he not perhaps overhearing a communi, hear the voice and it to have no more effect on him cation not intended for him? If he is alone on his back than speech in Bantu or in Erse then might it not as in the dark why does the voice not sav so? Wh\, does well cease? Unless its object be b\- mere sound to it never sa:' for example, You saw the light on such plague one in need of silence. Or of course unless as and such a day and now yOU are alone on \'our back above surmised directed at another. ~~N1 in the dark? Why? Perhaps for no other reason than 6 --, :n~13u S2lUB l!!'Sl:iIti.............,.ms~~;_·,"'-,~_, ===~9'-=~-----~- 3)1NIHl NV3dO~ .I.!lUO~ A small boy you come out of Connollv's Stores To another of that other or of him or of another still. ~. holding :-our mother b: the hand. You turn right and To one on his back in the dark in anv case. Of one on ~ advance in silence southward along the high\\-ay-. After his back in the dark whether the same or another. So some hundred paces Hll! head inland and broach the with what reason remains he reasons and reasons ill. long steep homeward. You make ground in silence For were the voice speaking not to him but to another hand in hand through the warm still summer air. It is then it must be of that other it is speaking and not of late afternoon and after some hundred paces the sun him or of another still. Since it speaks in the second appears above the crest of the rise. Looking up at the person. Were it not of him to whom it is speaking blue sky and then at vour mother's face vou break the speaking but of another it would not speak in the silence asking her if it is not in realih much more second person but in the third. For example, He first distant than it app(~ars. The sky that is. The blue sk:. saw the light on such and such a da:- and now he is on Receiving no ans\\-er :-ou mentally reframe your (IUCS­ his back in the dark. It is clear therefore that if it is I Sdn~o tion and some hundred paces later look l! p at her face not to him the voice is speaking but to another it is again and ask her if it does not appear much less dis­ not of him either but of that other and none other to tant than in reality it is. For some reason vou could that other. So with what reason remains he reasons ill. never fathom this (Iuestion must have angered her In order to be compan:- he must display a certain exceedinglY. For she shook ofT \our little hand and mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. L • made YOl! a cutting retort YOl! hav(~ never forgotten. Indeed it might be argued the lower the better. Up to a ,_ L point. The lower the order of mental activity the better If tIlt' voic(' is not speaking to him it must be speak­ the company. Up to a point. ing to another. So with what reason remains he reasons. L To another of that other. Or of him. Or of another still. You first saw the light in the room you most likely ~ 8 9 3~.l .l~ ~ .1 '--I. Sd[[!B l NV3dOtln3 Atl' were conceived in. The big bow window looked west hastened to the coachhouse sOllie twent\ 'lards distant to the mountains. Mainly west. For being bow it looked . L where he housed his De Dion Bouton. He shut the also a little south and a little north. Necessarily. :\. doors behind him and climbed into the driver's seat. little south to more mountain and a little north to foot­ You ma\ imagine his thoughts as he sat there in the • L L hill and plain. The midwife was none other than a dark not knowing what to think. Though footsore and Dr.
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