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Quote #10
And suddenly, like a lightning strike to the head, it was shamelessly clear: he is also them … And my whole self, all my agonies, all that I, exhausted, with my last strength, brought here, like a victory—all this was simply funny, like the ancient anecdote about Abraham and Isaac. Abraham, in a cold sweat, was already waving the knife over his son—over his own self—and then suddenly there was a voice from above: "Don't bother! I was just joking …" (39.28)
The dull realization of deceit—that S-4711 is a pawn of I-330 too—brings him no happiness here. Or to paraphrase another famous book, "how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise?"