— it depended only on us — would offer an opportunity to fulfill the until now stillborn promise of our handcuffed imaginations, and since our paraphiliac experiments had been aimed at precisely this impossibility, the total liberation of the imagination — in Gusztáv’s words — “from the infernal void of esse,” it was very hard for us now to renounce this chance of its realization, the tantalizing prospect that perhaps this time we would succeed in emerging into the boundless spaciousness of freedom, from where — even if only for a split second before extinction — we could contemplate the
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