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On the other hand, the left leg seems
to be itching with mineral groupings. A large area of his back still
has superimposed images of rooms at twilight. Blocked, he doesn’t push
it, he waits. This first contact seems just too rich, obscure...
Late
in the evening he arrives at the door to the library. He goes in (but
not by the door, through the wall, rather, through one of the books on
the highest shelf, whose title or author he cannot make out now that
he has reached the ground.) But what he notices first is a silent
storm in a garden he has never seen, outside the open window - without
the storm at all affecting the inside of the room. Wind, lightning,
rain, torn foliage, twisted branches, it’s all there. Good, he says,
that’ll clear the air.
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