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have scaled my skin, which is coated with yellowish pus. I know not river water nor the clouds
dew. From my nape, as from a dungheap, sprouts an enormous toadstool with unbelliferous pe
duncles. Seated on a shapeless chunk of furniture, I have not moved a limb for four centuries.
My feet have taken root in the soil forming a sort of perennial vegetation not yet quite plant-
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whenever one of them moves it tickles me. Take care les one escape and come scratching with its
mouth at the interior of your ear: it could next penetrate into your brain. In my right armpit there
is a chameleon which endlessly chases the toads so as not to die of hunger: everyone has to live.
But when one side completely foils the tricks of the other, they like nothing better than to make
themselves at home and suck the dainty grease that covers my sides: I am used to it. A spiteful
viper has devoured my prick and taken its place.

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contents of my testicles; inside the scrupulously scrubbed scrotal sac they lodged. My anus has
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not prove mistaken. They closely inspected the two plump portions which comprise the human
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