for long periods of time,
would hide in the latrines
with some metal disks
in a forbidden dice
cup and feebly mimic the divine disorder.
canonical books.
The authorities were
obliged to issue severe orders.
The sect disappeared,
but in my childhood I have
seen old men who,
searches
should cease
and that
all men should
juggle letters and symbols
until they constructed,
by an improbable gift of chance, these
precious
books and that these
precious books were
inaccessible,
seemed almost
intolerable. A blasphemous sect suggested
that the
As was natural,
this inordinate hope
was
followed by an
excessive depression. The certitude
that some shelf
in some hexagon held