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 

 self, within one's instinct, 

 which spring up and develop from 



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