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As Ursula passed froradually

the cloud of self-responsibility gathered upon her She became

aware of herself, that she was a separate entity in the o so And she was afraid, troubled Why, oh why

responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the

nothingness and the undifferentiatedof

herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a

direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how

stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the

responsibility of one's own life

The religion which had been another world for her, a glorious

sort of play-world, where she lived, cli shakily on the sea like the

disciple, breaking the bread into five thousand portions, like

the Lord, giving a great picnic to five thousand people, now

fell away from reality, and becaht assert it to be true an historical

fact, one kneas not true--at least, for this

present--day life of ours There could, within the li of the Five Thousand And

the girl had come to the point where she held that that which

one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself

So, the old duality of life, wherein there had been a weekday

world of people and trains and duties and reports, and besides

that a Sunday world of absolute truth and livingblinded by the face of the