Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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Segment 1

[0086] Molloy.[0087] Perhaps it is Molloy, wearing Malone's hat.[0088] But it is more
reasonable to assume it is Malone, wearing his own hat.
[0089] Oh look,
there is the first thing, Malone's hat.
[0090] I see no other clothes.
[0091] Perhaps Molloy is not here at all.[0092] Could he be, without my know-
ledge?
[0093] The place is no doubt vast.[0094] Dim intermittent lights suggest
a kind of distance.

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Segment 2

[0095] Tp To tell the truth I believe they are all
here, at least from Murphy on, I believe we are all here, but so
far I have only seen Malone.
[0096] Another hypothesis, they were here,
but are here no longer.
[0097] I shall examine it after my fashion.[0098] Are
there other pits, deeper down?
[0099] To which one accedes by this one?
[0100] Stupid obsession with depth.[0101] Are there other places set aside for
us and this one where I am, with Malone, merely their narthex?

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Segment 3

[0102] I thought I was [place = supralinear] had done with preliminaries [place = supralinear] phases.[0103] No, no, we have all been
here for ever, we shall all be here for ever, I know it.

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Segment 4

[0104] No [place = supralinear] I shall ask myself [place = overwritten] No more questions.[0105] Is not this rather the place where one
finishes vanishing [place = supralinear] fading away ?[Stet]
[0106] Will the day come when Malone will pass before
me no longer?
[0107] Will the day come when Malone will pass before the
spot where I was?
[0108] Will the day come when another will pass before [place = inline] me,
[place = supralinear] [] before the spot where I was.
[0109] I have no opinion, on the [place = supralinear] se subject [place = supralinear] matters.

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Segment 5

[0110] If I were not without feeling his beard would fill me with pu [place = overwritten] ity.
[0111] It hangs down, on either side of his chin, in two twists of unequal
length.
[0112] Was there a time when I too revolved thus?[0113] No, I have always
been sitting here, at this [place = supralinear] self[]same spot, my hands on my knees, gazing
before me like a great horned owl in an aviary.
[0114] The tears stream
down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes.
[0115] What makes me weep so?

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Segment 6

[0116] From time to time.[0117] There [ [place = inline] /]is nothing saddening here.[0118] Perhaps it is
liquefied brain.
[0119] Past happiness ij [place = overwritten] n any case has ce [place = overwritten] lean gone from
my memory, assuming it was ever there.
[0120] If I accomplish other natural
functions, it is unawares.
[0121] Nothing ever troubles me.[0122] And yet I am
troubled.
[0123] Nothing has ever changed since I have been here. But I
dare not conclude from this that nothing will ever change.
Let us

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Segment 7

[0124] Let us

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Metamark 1
Metamark: Stet Note: \'Stet\' in the margin.
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