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| 8 | 228 | Then, interestingly, I View more quotes about became">became afraid. |
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| 8 | 225 | I had heard some things, some phrases, some scraps of discourse, when half-conscious, struggling with the haze of the drug, but very little, and nothing that told me what I most wanted to know, where I was being taken, and why. |
| 8 | 226 | What was to be my fate? What was to be done with me? To what purposes was I to be applied? Why should I not at least be permitted to know where I was? What difference would it make, I wondered, if one such as I knew where she was? But such as I, I have learned, are commonly kept in ignorance. |
| 8 | 227 | But I was here now, wherever it might be. |
| 8 | 228 | Then, interestingly, I became afraid. |
| 8 | 229 | I was here, and in the power of others, whom I knew not. |
| 8 | 230 | Surely there was, after all, something to be said for the tepid world from which I had been extracted. |
| 8 | 231 | Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness, and such, a more secure place, a safer place? The dangers there, it seemed, were for the most part at least comfortingly slow, and invisible, such as minute quantities of poison in food, significant only over time, and lethal gases accumulating in the atmosphere, molecule by molecule. |