become more important to him than anything else in the world -- it
That is what happened to me. I understood that it was no
casual indisposition but something very important, and that if
these questions constantly repeated themselves they would have to
be answered. And I tried to answer them. The questions seemed
such stupid, simple, childish ones; but as soon as I touched them
and tried to solve them I at once became convinced, first, that
they are not childish and stupid but the most important and