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“Only, when I have lain alone on the hard ground, watching you play your game, I begin to feel the wish to be singled out; to be summoned, to be called away by one person who comes to find me … but comes to where I sit on my gilt chair, with my frock billowing round me like a flower. And withdrawing into an alcove, sitting alone on a balcony we talk together.”

Most vivid reading experience I’ve had in a while

"And so always, when the impossibility of my knowing, of Watt's having known, what I know, what Watt knew, seems absolute, and insurmountable, and undeniable, and incoercible, it could be shown that I know, because Watt told me, and that Watt knew, because someone told him, or because he found out for himself"

Summary of Watt and Watt so far: "But to elicit something from nothing requires a certain skill and Watt was not always successful, in his efforts to do so ... For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something ... in foisting a meaning there where no meaning appeared, he was most often neither the one, nor the other" (61-62).