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room. His eyes were suddenly become innocentchildlikeunprejudiced.
They seemedthese peopleinconceivably fantastic. And yet they really
existedthey functioned by themselvesthey were consciousthey had
minds. Moreoverhe was like them. Could one believe it? But the
evidence of the red notebook was conclusive.
It would have been polite to go and sayHow d'you do?But at the
moment Denis did not want to talkcould not have talked. His soul was a
tenuoustremulouspale membrane. He would keep its sensibility intact
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and virgin as long as he could. Cautiously he crept out by a side door and
made his way down towards the park. His soul fluttered as he
approached the noise and movement of the fair. He paused for a moment
on the brinkthen stepped in and was engulfed.
Hundreds of peopleeach with his own private face and all of them
realseparatealive: the thought was disquieting. He paid twopence
and saw the Tatooed Woman; twopence morethe Largest Rat in the World.
From the home of the Rat he emerged just in time to see a hydrogen-filled
balloon break loose for home. A child howled up after it; but calmlya
perfect sphere of flushed opalit mountedmounted. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
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