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He is an ordinary human being amongst other ordinary human beings�

And I? I am a man like every other man, just as that evening was like every other evening.

But he is a witness to the world. And the novel is an allegory of Genesis, a profound parable of awakening.
Two innocent adolescents meet in a room as if they meet in Eden and the first kiss is born�

Once more their lips joined. Their mouths and their eyes were those of Adam and Eve. I recalled the ancestral lesson from which sacred history and human history flow as from a fountain. They wandered in the penetrating light of paradise without knowledge. They were as if they did not exist. When � through triumphant curiosity, though forbidden by God himself � they learned the secret, the sky was darkened. The certainty of a future of sorrow had fallen upon them. Angels pursued them like vultures. They grovelled on the ground from day to day, but they had created love, they had replaced divine riches by the poverty of belonging to each other.

He witnesses birth, he witnesses love, he witnesses death�
He witnesses disenchantment, sorrow, grief, sadness, betrayal, misery�

With all the misery we have to suffer, we tear ourselves with our own hands besides � the war of the classes, the war of the nations, whether you look at us from afar or from above, we are barbarians and madmen.

He is a witness to the truth.

All the truths taken together make only one truth.

Despite everything the world goes on� And people keep falling in love� And it will happen again and again and again�