As if this little moment of inattention, if I must really admit to it, had put me beyond the pale of humanity for all time. As if, even more than an unforgivable act of culpability, that was the thing I couldn’t undo, that moment of inattention, that absence, because I had lost my humanity, because I’d taken my eye off the ball for a moment and would never be able to recover it, when in reality it only lasted a few hours at the worst, and probably only a few minutes in total, a kind of moral sleepwalking for at most a quarter of an hour, leading to a failure on my part to assess the situation
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