Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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[2193] could possibly be like, wondering where we could possibly have
met, all my life, well, almost, damn the almost, all my life,
until I joined, joined him, and now it's I am dear to them,
now it's they are dear to me, glad to hear it, they'll join
us, one by one, what a pity they're numberless, so are we,

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[2193] dear charnel-house of renegardes renegades, this eveining de-
cidedly everything is dear, no mattern, the ancients hear
nothing, for them it's all over, hell is reserved for thre last
arrival, and my old quarry, there beside me, for him it's all
over, beside me how are you, underneath me, we[]'re piled up in
heaps, no, that won't work either, no matter, it's a detail,

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[2193] for him it's all over, him the second-last, and for me too,
me the last, itwil it will soon be all over, I'll hear nothing
more, I've nothing to do, wsimply xwait, it's a slow business,
he'll come and lie on top of me, lie beside me, my dear tor-
mentor, his turn to suffer what he made me suffer, mine to be
at peace.

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[2194] How all comes right in the end to be sure , it's thanks
to patience, thanks to time, it's thanksto to the earth that
revolves that the eartjh revomlves no more, that time ends its
meal, and pain comes to an end, you only have to wait, without
doing anything a thing anything, it's no good doing a thing anything, and without
understanding, understanding is no help [] there's no help in understanding, and all comes right,

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[2194] nothing comes right, nothing, nothing, this will never end, this
voice will never stop, I am alone here, the first and the last,
I never made anyone sugffer, I never stopped anyone's suffering,
no one will ever stop mine, they'll never depart, I'll never
stir, I'll never know peace, neither will therey, but with this
difference, that they don't want it, they say they don't want

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[2194] it, they say I don't want it either, don't want peace, after
all prehaps they're right, how coudld I want it, what is it,
and this business of suffering, what is it, they say I suffer,
perhaps they're right, and that I'd feel better if I did this,
siaaid that, if my body stirred, if my head understood, if they
went dsilent and departed, perhaps they're right, how would

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