It comes in a flash, and is in a flash forgotten.

My mind cannot hold it.

It is too big for my mind; you might as well try to pack Dr.Jeffreys there into this wineglass.

Only two facts remain written on my heart.

The first is that there is trouble ahead of me, curious and unusual trouble; and the second, that permanently, continually, I, or a part of me, have something to do with Africa, a country of which I know nothing except from a few very dull books.