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XXXII
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
I have been away from San Michele a whole
year, what a waste of time! I have come
back with one eye less than when I went away.
There is nothing more to be said about it, no
doubt it was in order to prepare for such an
eventuality that I was made to start life with
two eyes. I have come back a different man.
I seem to be looking out on the world with my
one remaining eye from another angle of vision
than I did before. I can no more see what is
ugly and sordid, I can only see what is beautiful
and sweet and clean. Even the men and women
around me seem different from what they used
to be. By a curious optical illusion I can see
them no more as they are but as they were
meant to be, as they would have liked to be if
they had had a chance. I can still see with my
blind eye a lot of fools strutting about, but
they do not seem to get on my nerves as they
used to do, I do not mind their chatter, let them
have their say. Further I have not come for
the present, if I am ever to love my fellow
creatures I fear I shall have to be blinded in
both my eyes first. I cannot forgive them their
cruelty to animals. I believe there is a sort of
retrograde evolution going on in my mind which
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