You know what happens when two people talk. One of them speaks and the other breaks in: “It’s absolutely the same with me, I . . .” and starts talking about himself until the first one manages to slip back in with his own “It’s absolutely the same with me, I . . .” The phrase “It’s absolutely the same with me, I . . .” seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other’s thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy’s ear by force. Because all of man’s life among his kind
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