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93 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1953
He had put me to my task by creating a void around that task and probably by letting me believe that the task would be able to limit and circumscribe the void. This was really how it was, in fact, at lease apparently, and even though during the same time I had to go through events so terrible that it would be better to say they went through me and they are still, ceaselessly, going through me, I enjoyed a strange illusion that allowed me not to see that already I should no longer be speaking of task, but of life.
Hadn’t he, at a singularly dramatic moment, mentioned the desire to bind me in order to be able to unbind me? Yes, he had revealed himself to me in that thought, and I was still suffering its touch, its glamour. “When you say ‘we’, I’m not sure of what you’re saying. It doesn’t refer either to you or to me, does it?”