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This was the spirit in which, inevitably, he set himself to travel; he started on a journey that was to be as long as he could make it; it danced before him that, as the other side of the globe couldn't possibly have less to say to him, it might, by a possibility of suggestion, have more. THIS WAS THE SPIRIT IN WHICH INEVITABLY HE SET HIMSELF TO TRAVEL HE STARTED ON A JOURNEY THAT WAS TO BE AS LONG AS HE COULD MAKE IT IT DANCED BEFORE HIM THAT AS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE LESS TO SAY TO HIM IT MIGHT BY A POSSIBILITY OF SUGGESTION HAVE MORE
ave consented to live but for the possibility of guessing. She had told him, his friend, not to guess; she had forbidden him, so far as he might, to know, and she had even in a sort denied the power in him to learn: which were so many things, precisely, to deprive him of rest. It wasn't that he wanted, he argued for fairness, that anything past and done should repeat itself; it was only that he shouldn't, as an anticlimax, have been taken sleeping so sound as not to be able to win back by an effort of thought the lost stuff of consciousness. He declared to himself at moments that he would either win it back or have done with consciousness for ever; he made this idea his one motive in fine, made it so much his passion that none other, to compare with it, seemed ever to have touched him. The lost stuff of consciousness became thus for him as a strayed or stolen child to an unappeasable father; he hunted it up and down very much as if he were knocking at doors and enquiring of the police. ON HE COULDN'T PERHAPS HAVE CONSENTED TO LIVE BUT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF GUESSING SHE HAD TOLD HIM HIS FRIEND NOT TO GUESS SHE HAD FORBIDDEN HIM SO FAR AS HE MIGHT TO KNOW AND SHE HAD EVEN IN A SORT DENIED THE POWER IN HIM TO LEARN WHICH WERE SO MANY THINGS PRECISELY TO DEPRIVE HIM OF REST IT WASN'T THAT HE WANTED HE ARGUED FOR FAIRNESS THAT ANYTHING PAST AND DONE SHOULD REPEAT ITSELF IT WAS ONLY THAT HE SHOULDN'T AS AN ANTI CLIMAX HAVE BEEN TAKEN SLEEPING SO SOUND AS NOT TO BE ABLE TO WIN BACK BY AN EFFORT OF THOUGHT THE LOST STUFF OF CONSCIOUSNESS HE DECLARED TO HIMSELF AT MOMENTS THAT HE WOULD EITHER WIN IT BACK OR HAVE DONE WITH CONSCIOUSNESS FOREVER HE MADE THIS IDEA HIS ONE MOTIVE IN FINE MADE IT SO MUCH HIS PASSION THAT NONE OTHER TO COMPARE WITH IT SEEMED EVER TO HAVE TOUCHED HIM THE LOST STUFF OF CONSCIOUSNESS BECAME THUS FOR HIM AS A STRAYED OR STOLEN CHILD TO AN UNAPPEASABLE FATHER HE HUNTED IT UP AND DOWN VERY MUCH AS IF HE WERE KNOCKING AT DOORS AND INQUIRING OF THE POLICE
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