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"the need for glasses intensified my mania for finding a pattern that, in good as evil, would bind my fate and hers: i was blind, she a falcon; i had an opaque pupil, she narrowed her eyes, with darting glances that saw more; i clung to her arm, among the shadows. she guided me with a stern gaze."

"a mysterious inversion of attitudes had occurred: i, despite the rain, would have continued on the road, i felt far from everything and everyone, and distance -- i discovered for the first time -- extinguished in me every tie and every worry; Lila had abruptly relented of her own plan, she had given up the sea, she had wanted to return to the confines of the neighborhood."