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He dressed with care, but without haste, with long pauses between the separate manipulations.
The rooms, empty and neglected, did not approve of him, the furniture and the walls watched him in silent criticism.
He felt, entering the stillness, like an intruder in an underwater kingdom with a different, separate notion of time.
Opening his own drawers, he felt like a thief and could not help moving on tiptoe, afraid to arouse noisy and excessive echoes that waited irritably for the chance to explod ...more
The rooms, empty and neglected, did not approve of him, the furniture and the walls watched him in silent criticism.
He felt, entering the stillness, like an intruder in an underwater kingdom with a different, separate notion of time.
Opening his own drawers, he felt like a thief and could not help moving on tiptoe, afraid to arouse noisy and excessive echoes that waited irritably for the chance to explod ...more
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