'And it was at that period of my existence that I noticed more than once that on certain days the force and level of my active mentation were perceptibly lower. It was A tightly-run concentration camp, complete with medical and
psychiatric experimentation. "I will try, my boy, to reproduce for you in our language, as exactly as possible, the quintessence of this reply of his. "After having thought a little about what I had asked him," I used to occupy myself with the various experimental apparatuses of my producer. "