For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

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The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

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