He had to bring this thought to completion, then realize it with force.
In it lay the key; for the writing of the great novel that would begin in the year 1907 and come to its end in the year 2057.
Again and again he had searched for a beginning equal to those beginnings that immediately mark a great novel as such.
the otherwise
not for the otherwise / what do I say to myself
had they removed it,
bound it up like a Christmas goose and stepped into the wet; assume
it continues uninterrupted; rather stripped them,
their belongings in a pouch
