guessed ; of the derisive chairs on 

 which one is forbidden to sleep; 

 of the plates and dishes that are 

 empty by the time that one can get 

 at them ; of the lamp that drives 

 away the dark ? . . . How many 

 orders, dangers, prohibitions, 

 problems, enigmas has one not to 

 classify in one's overburdened 

 memory! . . . And how to rec- 

 oncile all this with other laws, 

 other enigmas, wider and more 

 imperious, which one bears within 

 one's self, within one's instinct, 

 which spring up and develop from 



