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Preamble

A child is playing hide-and-seek. He’s standing behind a door. Two adults are talking on the other side. They say something shocking about his past. The revelation is let fall like a commonplace, between other things. The child freezes. He has heard. Now he can never go back to what he was before. Time, like knowledge, is irreversible. Close to him, a voice cries out: “I see you!” He emerges from his hiding place. He is forever changed. And the other, the one who was looking for him, doesn’t know it. Neither do the adults from the other side of the door, who have fallen silent.

He isn’t playing anymore.