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Chapter 2
Whatuniversalbinomialdenominationswouldbehisasentityandnonentity?
Assumedbyanyorknowntonone.EverymanorNoman.
Whattributeshis?
Honourandgiftsofstrangers,thefriendsofEveryman.Anymphimmortal,beauty,thebrideofNoman.
Wouldthedepartednevernowherenohowreappear?
Everhewouldwander,selfcompelled,totheextremelimitofhiscometaryorbit,beyondthefixedstarsandvariablesunsandtelescopicplanets,astronomicalwaifsandstrays,totheextremeboundaryofspace,passingfromlandtoland,amongpeoples,amidevents.Somewhereimperceptiblyhewouldhearandsomehowreluctantly,suncompelled,obeythesummonsofrecall.Whence,disappearingfromtheconstellationoftheNorthernCrownhewouldsomehowreappearrebornabovedeltaintheconstellationofCassiopeiaandafterincalculableeonsofperegrinationreturnanestrangedavenger,awreakerofjusticeonmalefactors,adarkcrusader,asleeperawakened,withfinancialresources(bysupposition)surpassingthoseofRothschildorthesilverking.
Whatwouldrendersuchreturnirrational?
Anunsatisfactoryequationbetweenanexodusandreturnintimethroughreversiblespaceandanexodusandreturninspacethroughirreversibletime.
