Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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[0153] of course.[0154] But the mere fact of asking myself such a question sets
me wondering
[place = supralinear] gives me to reflect.
[0155] It is in vain I tell myslef that its only purpose
is to stimulate the lagging discourse, this excellent explanation
does not satisfy me.
[0156] Can it be I am the prey of a genuine preoccupat-
ion, of a need to know so to speak [place = supralinear] as one might say?
[0157] I don't know.[0158] I'll try something
else.
[0159] If one day a change were to occur [place = supralinear] take place, proceeding [place = supralinear] resulting from a principle
of disorder already present, or on its way, what then?

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[0160] All [place = supralinear] That would [place = inline] seem
[place = margin left] to [] depend on the nature of the change in question.
[0161] No, here all change
would be fatal and land me back, there and then, in [place = margin left] all the fun of the [place = supralinear] among the swings and
fair [place = supralinear] the roundabouts.
[0162] I'll try something else.[0163] Has nothing really changed since I
have been here?
[0164] [place = supralinear] No,[] F [place = overwritten] frankly, hand on heart, wait a second, no, nothing,
to my knowledge.
[0165] But, as I have said, the place may well be vast,
as it may well [place = supralinear] really measure twelve feet in diameter.

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[0166] As far as discern-
ing its limits is concerend, it comes to the same thing.
[0167] It pleases [place = supralinear] I like
me to think I occupy the centre, but nothing is less certain.
[0168] In
a sense I would be better off on [place = supralinear] at the d [place = overwritten] edge [place = supralinear] circumference, since my eyes are always
fixed in the same direction.
[0169] But I am certainly o [place = overwritten] not on [place = supralinear] at the edge [place = supralinear] circumference.[0170] For
if I were then Malone, wheeling about me as he does, would exit [place = supralinear] issue
froù from the enclosure [place = supralinear] enceinte at every revolution, which is manifestly
impossible.

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[0171] But does he really [place = supralinear] in fact wheel, does he not perhaps simply
pass before me in a straight line?
[0172] No, he wheels, I feel it, and
about me, like a planet about its sun.
[0173] And if he made a noise,[] [place = supralinear] as he goes, I
would hear him all the time, on my right hand, at my back, on my
left hand, before seeing him again.
[0174] But he makes none, for I am
not deaf, of that I am convinced, that is to say half convinced.

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[0175] In any case from centre to edge [place = supralinear] circumference it is a far cry and I may wd [place = overwritten] ell be
situated somewhere between them the two.
[0176] It is equally possible,
I do not deny it, that I too am in endless [place = supralinear] perpetual motion, accompanied by
Malone, as the earth by its moon.
[0177] In which case there would be no
further grounds for my complaining about the disorder of the lights,
[place = supralinear] this being due simply to my insistence on regarding them as always the same
lights and viewed always from the same point.

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[0178] All is possible, or
very nearly [place = supralinear] almost.
[0179] But the best is to think of myself as fixed and at
the centre of this place, whatever its shape and scope [place = supralinear] extent.
This is

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[0180] This is

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