That single second was enough to tear apart all the mist of enchantment that had hung over my eyes for the whole evening. It was a moment of instant revelation, in which I now saw everything in all its shocking clarity; I knew that this unhappy creature would never fully recover. The miracle that they had all expected me to deliver had not come to pass. I was no longer God, but merely a pitiful, insignificant human being, whose weakness was as vile and damaging as any, who with his pity created nothing but confusion and desolation. In my mind I was precisely and horribly conscious of where my
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