Capitolo 4
Because I didn't remember the face of the assassin? That confused me long
later. I have had to see him before: I am due to be there certainly
when the crime was committed. I have had to know to the moment
all around him. But the empty space that has come above to my memory, came
on it with the fatal hit. Everybody that has gone before, was to me as
although is not. I vaguely remember, as the first point in mine
life that my eyes have been closed very hard, and obscurity came me on. While
they was closed so, I felt an explosion. Next moment, I believe, me
them open, and it this Portrait. Any sensitive-flat could have
photographs more instantly it, as from an electric spark, that
it made my retina that evening, as for months after I saw him/it everybody. In
another moment, me closed again my covers, and all were ended. There was
obscurity once more, and I was alone with my Horror.
Then me confused my head very as to the meaning to come, in years of
the Portrait. Gradually, footstep leftovers, I repaired some of him, with
my friends' help, and of the evidence offered in payment of a debt to the coroner
investigation. But for the time being me I didn't know anything of everybody that. I was a
newborn's child again. Only with this important difference. They says
our minds to birth are as a sheet of white paper, ready to take
whatever impressions can fall on them. Mine was as a sheet everybody
covered and it darkened from a hateful portrait. It was weeks, I imagine,
before I knew or I was aware of anything other but that. The
Portrait and a great Horror divided my life among them.
Memoirs, I didn't also remember the murdered man it was my father. ME
doesn't recognize the room as one in ours proper old house to Woodbury. ME
doesn't know anything except what I tell here him. I saw the
dead body, the blood, the box on the table the threads from the side, the
bottles and baths and dishes of the equipment of an amateur photographer,
without knowing what all of them meant. I also saw not the books as
books but as stings visible of colour. It had anything the effect