To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. ‘That’s your course, world,’ one says, ‘mine is this.

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and…”

“There is something absolute in us which despises qualification.”

“And he went on reading. His lips twitched. It filled him. It fortified him. He …”