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the time. Searching for clues -- _what is to be done?_ -- he stalks the city streets.
Somewhere he sees a television set through an evening window. There is a woman's head on the screen, a famous "presenter", being interviewed by an equally famous, twinkling Irish "host". -- What would be the worst thing you could imagine? -- Oh, I think, I'm sure, it would be, oh, _yes_: to be alone on Christmas Eve. You'd really have to face yourself, wouldn't you, you'd look into a harsh mirror and ask yourself, _is this all there is?_ -- Gibreel, alone, not knowing the date, walks on. In the mirror, the adversary approaches at the same pace as his own, beckoning, stretching out his arms.
The city sends him messages. Here, it says, is where the Dutch king decided to live when he came over three centuries ago. In those days this was out of town, a village, set in green English fields. But when the King arrived