let me not defer or neglect it for i shall not pass this way again.59 chapter 11 who , or what , i am writing to , if anything , in this realm of 90 % random happenstance and 9 % incompletely aligned coincidences as i isolate the framework for more plausible republics part ii i have deliberately kept my room on the seventy second floor in the bayoke tower dark so that the lights of the city , a second universe of stars , can be seen through the windows with a small sheet of light , like a radiant shadow against the mass and matter of darkness , falling upon part of the table and the notebook paper i am writing upon most tepidly .