falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.
The snares of the world were its ways of sin. He would fall. He had not yet fallen but he would fall silently, in an instant.
Not to fall was too hard, too hard
; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come,
falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.
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『若い芸術家の肖像』
、Chapter 4
いつ落ちるか？
まだ落ちていない。が、いずれ、しかし……今にも落ちそうだ。
2023-09-05