Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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Segment 1

[0124] try and see where these considerations lead.[0125] I have been [place = supralinear] here, [place = supralinear] here ever[] since
I began to be, here, my appearances elsewhere being due to other
parties.
[0126] All has proceeded, throughout [place = supralinear] all this time, in the utmost
calm, the most perfect order, apart from a few manifestations the
meaning of which escapes me.
[0127] No, it is not that their meaning es-
capes me, my own escapes me just as much.

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Segment 2

[0128] Here all things ... [place = supralinear] no, I
shall not say it, being unable to.
[0129] I owe my existence to nobody,
these faint fires are not of the kind [place = supralinear] those that illuminate or burn.
[0130] Going nowhere, coming from nowhere, Malone passes.[0131] These notions
of ancestors [place = supralinear] forbears, of houses where lamps are lit at night, and other
kindred ones [place = supralinear] such, where do they come to me from?
[0133] And all these quest-
ions that I ask myself.
[0134] It is not in a spirit of curiosity.

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Segment 3

[0135] I
cannot be silent.
[0136] I do not need to know anything about myself [place = supralinear] About myself I need to know nothing.
[0137] Here all is clear.[0138] No, all is not clear.[0139] But the discourse must
continue [place = supralinear] go on.
[0140] So one invents obscurities.[0141] It is r [place = overwritten] Rhetoric.[0142] What then [place = supralinear] These lights
is so strange about these lights, I do not ask them to mean any- [place = supralinear] for example, which I do not ask to have meaning [place = supralinear] mean anything, what is there so strange
thing, so out of place almost? [place = supralinear] about them, one might almost say so wrong?
[0143] Is it their irregularity, their
instability, [place = supralinear] is it their shining strong one minute and weak the next,
but never exceeding [place = supralinear] beyond the power of one or two canf [place = overwritten] dles?

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[0144] Malone appears
and disappears with the punctuality of clockwork, always at the
same distance from me, at the same speed [place = supralinear] velocity, in the same direction,
in the same attitude.
[0145] But the play of the lights is truly unpre-
dictable.
[0146] It is only fair to say that to eyes less knowing than
mine they would probably pass quite unnoticed [place = supralinear] unseen..

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Segment 5

[0147] But even to mine
do they not sometimes do so?
[0148] They are perhaps unwavering and
fo [place = overwritten] ixed and my fitful perceiving the cause of their inconstancy.
[0149] I hope I shall [place = supralinear] may have occasion to come back to this question.

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Segment 6

[0150] But
I shall remark without further delay, in order to be sure of doing
so, that I am counting [place = supralinear] relying on these lights, as indeed on all other
similar sources of credible perplexity, to help me continue and
perhaps even conclude.
[0151] Upon which I shall continue [place = supralinear] And xxx I [place = supralinear] I resume, I have to. [place = supralinear] I have to.
[0152] Yes, where was I, from the unexceptionable harmony of this place [place = supralinear] order that has prevailed
[place = supralinear] here up to now [place = supralinear] date may I infer that such will always n [place = overwritten] be the case?
I may

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Segment 7

[0153] I may

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Doodle 2
Categories:
Shape, Triangle
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