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Chapter 23

           ""Inthegreatestageofenlightenmentinthehistoryofthisearth?Whenwehavedestroyedmoredarknessinthislastfiftyyearsthaninthelastfivemillion?""AsatNeuveChapelle?Hiroshima?""ButyouandI!Welive,wearethiswonderfulage.Wearenotdestroyed.Wedidnotevendestroy.""Nomanisanisland.""Pah.Rubbish.Everyoneofusisanisland.Ifitwerenotsoweshouldgomadatonce.Betweentheseislandsareships,airplanes,telephones,televisionwhatyouwill.Buttheyremainislands.Islandsthatcansinkordisappearforever.Youareanislandthathasnotsunk.Youcannotbesuchapessimist.Itisnotpossible.""Itseemspossible.""Comewithme."Hestoodup,asiftimewasvital."Come.Iwillshowyoutheinnermostsecretoflife.Come."Hewalkedquicklyroundtothecolonnade.Ifollowedhimupstairs.Therehepushedmeoutontotheterrace."Goandsitatthetable.Withyourbacktothesun."Inaminuteheappeared,carryingsomethingheavydrapedinawhitetowel.Heputitcarefullyonthecenterofthetable.Thenhepaused,madesureIwaslooking,beforegravelyheremovedthecloth.Itwasastonehead,whetherofamanorawomanitwasdifficulttosay.Thenosehadbeenbrokenshort.Thehairwasdoneinafillet,withtwoside-pieces.Butthepowerofthefragmentwasintheface.Itwassetinatriumphantsmile,asmilethatwouldhavebeensmugifithadnotbeensofullofthepurestmetaphysicalgoodhumor.TheeyeswerefaintlyOriental,long,andasIsaw,forConchisputahandoverthemouth,alsosmiling.

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