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runnng up a hill, the strain of doing so gradually and then more speedily rises up the legs, an accretion like the filling of two vials, two vials with a serum of “strain”, (“strain” being the expression of the resistance of reality to one’s activity — the surrealist director of the athlete’s mind above the beakers and burners of his legs, the scientist’s legs) the vials beneath the bunsen burner of ones peritoneum, then disappears when it should be in the abdomen; here it goes under the tunnel, so to speak, it is not felt there, is “subdominal”; then it reappears not as a sort of strain as formerly but as a desperate need for breath, it has transformed, the strain having risen but not without alteration, not continuously so