Reading. The old buildings of the hospital. This is where I was born, he knows that, W. says. This is where I came into the world. He imagines the midwife, holding me up by my heels. He imagines my first bellow, my first cry.

W. reminds me of the story in the Koran. When the first human being was born, a fish came up out of the water, and a vulture came down from the sky. 'The danger has come', they said in unison. The catastrophe! And the fish dived down to the bottom of the waters, and the vulture flew away into the sky.

'Just as man must suffer from God, so God must suffer from man', W. says, quoting Jung. - 'How much do you think God suffered when you were born?'