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 evei [place = overwritten] ning de-
cidedly everything is dear, no mattern [place = inline] , the ancients hear
nothing, for them it's all over, hell is reserved for thr [place = overwritten] e last
arrival, and my old quarry, there beside me, for him it's all
over, beside me how are you, underneath me, we [place = supralinear] []'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, w [place = overwritten] simply x [place = overwritten] wait, 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 eartj [place = overwritten] h revom [place = overwritten] lves no more, that time ends its
meal, and pain comes to an end, you only have to wait, without
doing anything a thing [place = supralinear] anything, it's no good doing a thing [place = supralinear] anything, and without
understanding, understanding is no help [place = supralinear] [] 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 sug [place = overwritten] ffer [place = inline] , I never stopped anyone's suffering [place = inline] ,
no one will ever stop mine [place = inline] , they'll never depart [place = inline] , I'll never
stir [place = inline] , I'll never know peace [place = inline] , neither will there [place = supralinear] y [place = inline] , but with this
difference [place = inline] , that they don't want it [place = inline] , they say they don't want

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[2194] it [place = inline] , they say I don't want it either [place = inline] , don't want peace [place = inline] , after
all prehaps they're right [place = inline] , how coud [place = overwritten] ld I want it [place = inline] , what is it [place = inline] ,
and this business of suffering [place = inline] , what is it [place = inline] , they say I suffer [place = inline] ,
perhaps they're right [place = inline] , and that I'd feel better if I did this [place = inline] ,
sia [place = overwritten] aid that [place = inline] , if my body stirred [place = inline] , if my head understood [place = inline] , if they
went d [place = overwritten] silent and departed [place = inline] , perhaps they're right [place = inline] , how would

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