Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2153] believe I've piped up beforebt they're finished. [place = supralinear] they've done with me.[2154] The master
in any case, no question [place = supralinear] we don't intend, pulling in their horns they rae, [place = supralinear] listen to them hedging
are, no question we don't intend, unless absolutely necessary [place = supralinear] driven to it,
to make the mistake of e [place = overwritten] inquiring into him, he'd turn out to
be a mere high official, we'd end up by having need of [place = supralinear] needing God,
we [place = supralinear] may have lost all pride admittedly, but there are certain in- [place = supralinear] certain depths we [place = margin top] [↓] and though admittedly we have lost all sense of decency
famies one prefers to avoid?x, there [place = supralinear] still are certain depths we prefer not to sink to.
nevertheless
[2155] Let us stick [place = supralinear] keep to the family circle,
it's more intimate, we know e [place = overwritten] one another by now, no surprises
to be feared, the will has been opened, nothing for anybody.
[2156] This eye, curious how this eye invites inspection, del [place = overwritten] mands
sympathy;, solicits attention,limpores [place = supralinear] implores assistance, to do what,
it's not clear, to stop weeping, have a [place = supralinear] quick look round, blaze [place = supralinear] goggle briefly
briefly [place = supralinear] an instant and be closed for ever.
[2157] It's it you see and it alone,
in this face, it's from it you set out to look for [place = supralinear] a face, to
it you return having found nothing, nothing worth while, nothing
but a kind of ashen smear, perhaps it's long grey hair, hanging
in a tangle about [place = supralinear] round the mouth, greasy with ancient tears, or the
fringe of a mantles pread like a veil mantle spread like a veil,
or fingers opening and shutting [place = supralinear] closing to try and shut out the world,
, or all together, fingers, hair and rags, mingled inextricably.
[2158] Suppositions all equally inane, it's enough to enounce them to
regret having spoken, familiar torment, a different past, it's
often to be wished, different from yours, when you find it out. [place = supralinear] discover it (what it is)
[place = margin left] when you find out what it was.
[2159] He is haire [place = overwritten] less, [place = supralinear] and naked and his hand [place = supralinear] s, laid flat on his knees once
and for all, are in no danger of mischief getting into miaschief.
[2160] Then where is [place = supralinear] And the face?
[2161] Balls, all [place = supralinear] all balls, I don't believe in the
eye either, , there's nothing here, nothing to see, nothing that [place = supralinear] to see with
sees, it's a blessed coincidence, when you think what it would
be, a world without looker-on [place = supralinear] [⁁] a witness [place = supralinear] onlooker (fxx gawker) [place = margin left] spectator, and vice versa, brrr![2162] No spectator
then, and what is more [place = supralinear] better still no spectale [place = overwritten] cle, good riddance.
[2163] If this noise
could stop there'd be nothing more to say.[2164] I wonder what the [place = supralinear] all the chat
is [place = supralinear] all about at the moment.[2165] Worm presumably.[2166] Mag [place = overwritten] hood is [place = supralinear] being abandoned,.
[2167] And I await my turn.[2168] Yes, I do not despair, all things considered,
of drawing their attention to my case, some [place = supralinear] fine day.Not that it
[2169] Not that it
nevertheless
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