Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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Segment 1

[2194] I know about these things, how would I understand what they're
talking about, I'll never stir, never speak, they'll never go
sielent, never depart, they'll never get catch me, never trop trying,
that's that, I'm listening.

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Segment 2

[2195.1] Well I prefer that, I must say I
prefer that, that what, oh you know, who you, oh I suppose the audience
well well, so there's an audience, it's a public show, you buy
your seat and you wait, perhaps it's free, a freeshow free show,
you take your seat and wait for it to begin, or perhaps it's
compulsory, a compulsory show, you wait for the compulsory show
to begin,it takes some time, you hear a voiece, perhaps it's a
recitation, that's the show, someone reciting, selected passages,

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Segment 3

[2195.1] old favourites, a poetry matinée, or someone improvising, you
can barely hear him, that's the show, [2195.2] you can't leave, you're
afraid to leave, it might be even worse elsewhere, you pull make
yourself together, the best of it, you reason with yourself, try and be reasonable, you came too early, here we'd need latin,
it's only beginning, it hasn't begun, he's only preluding,
clearing his throat, alone in his dressing-room, he'll appear
in a moment, he'll begin in a moment, or it's the statge-manager,
giving his instructions, his last recommendations, before the

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Segment 4

[2195.2] curtain rises, that's the show, waiting for the show, to the sound
of miumu a murmur, you pull yourself together reason with yourself try and be reasonable, perhaps it's not a
voice at all, perhaps it's the air, ascending, descending,
flowing, eddying, seeking an exit, finding none, [2195.3] and the
spectators, where are they, you don't didn't noticed, in the clutch anguish
of waiting, never noticed you were waiting alone, that's the show, waiting
alone, in the restless air, for it to begin, for something
to begin, for there to be something aelse but you, for the power

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Segment 5

[2195.3] to go, the courage to leave, you pull yourself together, reason with your try & be reasonable, per-
haps you are blind, probably you are deaf, the show is over,
all is over, but where then is the hand, the and of friendship, helping hand
or merely of charity charitable, or the hired hand, it's a long time
colming, to take yours and draw you waway, that's the show, free, gratis and for nothing, waiting
alone, blind and deaf, you don't know where,
you don't know for what, for a hand to come,
and draw you away,
somewhere else, where

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Addition 1
that's the show, free, gratis and for nothing, waiting
alone, blind and deaf, you don't know where,
you don't know for what, for a hand to come,
and draw you away,
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