Now that I have both versions of A Moveable Feast, the published version
and the restored version, I can compare the two.
There was a paragraph at
the end of "Hunger Was Good Discipline," in the restored version,
All I must do now was stay sound and good in my head until morning when I could start to work again. In those days we never thought that any of that could be difficult.
I look at the published version. The last paragraph reads,
All I must do now was stay sound and good in my head until morning when I could start to work again.
Nothing about what we didn't know lay ahead.
We didn't know it.
We were blissfully ignorant.
One wouldn't want to know if one were superstitious.
I don't want to know what's ahead.
I don't think it's the Nobel Prize.
Or suicide.
It's probably more of the same.
Why would it change?