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[0091] As if as one in his right mind when he at last was out again ^{he knew not how}
he was not long out again when he began to wonder if he was in
his right mind.[0092] ^[For if not so could he have wondered so or indeed
at all?^{] For But} Could one not in his right mind be reasonably said to wonder
if he was in his right mind n^and bring what is more his ^{remains of} reason to
bear on his perplexity this perplexity in the way he must be said
to do if he is to be said at all?[0092|001] Clearly not.

[0093] It was r^therefore
in the guise of a more or less reasonable being that for some unknown
reason he emerged at last ⁽from his se^reclusion^{) he knew not how} into the outer world
and had not been thre there for more than six or seven hours by the
clock when he could not but begin to wonder if he was in his right
mind.

[0094] By the same clock whose strokes were those heard times without
number in his seclusion ^confinement as it struk that ^{struck the} hours and half hours and so
in a sense at first a source of reassurance till finally one of alarm
as being no clearer now or no fainter as in the open he came and went
than to him pent and motionless. than when in principle deadened ^muffled by
his four walls.

[0095] Then he called to his ^sought help the example ^{in the thought} of one
hastening westward at sundown to obtain a better viex^w of Venus and
found it of none.[0096] Of the sole other sound that is of cries enlivener
of his solitude as lost to suffereing he sat at his g^table head on
hands the same was true. What walls were those that might as well
not have been?

[0097] ^{Of their whenceabouts that is of both clock & cries the same was true that is
no more to be determined now than as was only natural then.}
[0098] ^{Bringing to bear on all this all his remains of reason
he sought help in the thought that his memory of indoors
was perhaps at fault and found it of none.}[0099] ^{Further
to his confusion his soundless tread as when barefoot he
trod his floor.}[0100] ^{So all ears from bad to worse till in the
end he ceased if not to hear to listen and began set out? to look about
him.}

[0101] ^{With the rResult finally he was in a field of grass which went
some way if nothing else to account for his soundless
tread and as if to pay for this before long again in
trouble.}[0102] ^{For he could recall no field of grass from
even the very heart of which no limit of any kind
was to be discovered but always x in some
quarter or another some end in sight such as a hedge fence fence or other
form manner of bourn for from which to make return.}