27 Elasticity
The unseen competitor is that
intangible "competency" which
must be achieved
and every hour, life seems to have no other
wish than to prove there is no time or
space É And I would still adore
you,
again and again. Whatever it is, bad
weather or good, the loss of a friend,
sickness, slander, the failure of some
letter to arrive, the spraining of an ankle,
a glance into a shop, a counter-
argument, the opening of a book, a dream,
a fraud-
opti-
mism naturally does not stand without an
ultimate disavowal.