visible, ever present, ever active 

 and as foreign, as superior to our 

 being as we are to the dog? 



We now, to return to Pelleas, 

 know pretty well what to do and 

 how to behave on the master's 

 premises* But the world does 

 not end at the house-door, and, 

 beyond the walls and beyond the 

 hedge, there is a universe of which 

 one has not the custody, where 

 one is no longer at home, where 

 relations are changed. How are 

 we to stand in the street, in the 

 fields, in the market-place, in the 





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