They were present to me now, but coolly and sanely in all their meagreness.
I remember that I took each one separately and chewed on it for hours.
_Kasredin_--there was nothing to be got out of that.

_Cancer_--there were too many meanings, all blind.

_V.

I._--that was the worst gibberish of all.
Before this I had always taken the I as the letter of the alphabet.

I had thought the v.