in the chronicle of human endeavour there was no end to unaccountable behaviour, but also, you were not entirely the captain of your own fate, something could come over you. The best answer to the question was a lift of the shoulders and two palms opened, to indicate what had dropped from the sky. This had the virtues of suggestiveness and silence, because what had possessed one could possess another, and because you couldn’t argue with a mime. That, in the heat of the moment, it was the answer hardest to find, that instead any number of the possessed had set out on carefully stepped
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