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... man is condemned1 to be free
The alarm clock showed 11:55 p.m. Hilde lay staring at the ceiling. She tried to let her associations flow freely. Each time she finished a chain of thoughts, she tried to ask herself why.
Could there be something she was trying to repress?
If only she could have set aside all censorship, she might have slid into a waking dream. A bit scary, she thought.
The more she relaxed and opened herself to random2 thoughts and images, the more she felt as if she was in the major's cabin by the little lake in the woods.
What could Alberto be planning? Of course, it was Hilde's father planning that Alberto was planning something. Did he already know what Alberto would do? Perhaps he was trying to give himself free rein3, so that whatever happened in the end would come as a surprise to him too.
There were not many pages left now. Should she take a peek4 at the last page? No, that would be cheating. And besides, Hilde was convinced that it was far from decided5 what was to happen on the last page.
Wasn't that a curious thought? The ring binder6 was right here and her father could not possibly get back in time to add anything to it. Not unless Alberto did something on his own. A surprise ...
Hilde had a few surprises up her own sleeve, in any case. Her father did not control her. But was she in full control of herself?
What was consciousness? Wasn't it one of the greatest riddles7 of the universe? What was memory? What made us "remember" everything we had seen and experienced?
What kind of mechanism8 made us create fabulous9 dreams night after night?
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triumphantly
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precisely
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disclaim
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anonymous
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