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"Imagine: it's all there in the nerves, in the head, there are these nerves in the brain (devil take them!)... there are little sorts of tails, these nerves have little tails, well, and when they start trembling there... that is, you see, I look at something with my eyes, like this, and they start trembling, these little tails... and when they tremble, an image appears, not at once, but in a moment, it takes a second, and then a certain moment appears, as it were, that is, not a moment - devil take the moment - but an image, that is, an object or an event, well, devil take it - and that's why i contemplate, and then think... because of the little tails, and not at all because i have a soul or am some sort of image and likeness, that's all foolishness."