Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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[2195.3] perhaps it's worse.

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[2196] So much for the you, that's the you off
our mind.
[2197] And now for the it, which I prefer it that, which I must
say I prefer [] that, what a memory, real fly-paper, I don't know,
I don't prefer it [] any more, that's all I know, so why bother about
it, a thing you don't prefer, imagine just think of that, bothering about
that, not on your life likely, perish the thought, one must wait, discover a preference,
within one's bosom, then it will be time enough to institute
an inquiry.

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[2198.1] Moreover, that's right, connect link, connect link, you never
know, moreover their attitude towards me has not changed, I am
deceived, they are deceived, they have deceived me, they have
tried to deceive me, saying that their attitude towards me
had changed, but they haven't deceived me, iI didn't understand
what they were trying to do, I didn't understand what they
were trying to do to me, I say what I'm told to say, that's
all there is to it, perhaps more than there is, and yet I wonder, I don't know,

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[2198.1] I don't feel a mouth on me, I don't feel the jostle of words jostling
in my mouth, and when you say a poem you like, if you like
poetry, in the tube underground, or in bed, for yourself, the words are
there, somewhere, without the least sound, I don't feel that
either, words falling, you don't know not where, you don't know not whence,
drops of silence through the silence, I don't feel it, I don't
feel a mouth on me, nor a head, do I feel an ear, frankly
now, do I feel an ear, well frankly I don't, so much the worse,

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[2198.1] I don't feel an ear either, [2198.2] this is awful, make an effort,
I must feel something, yes, I feel something, they say I
feel something, I don't know what it is, I don't know what I
feel, xtell me what I feel and I'll tell you who I am, they'll tell
me who I am, I won't understand, but the thing will be said,
they will have said who I am, and I'll have heard, without an
ear I'll have heard, and I'll have said it, without a mouth
I'll have said it, I'll have heard it inside me, then in the

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[2198.2] same breath outside me, perhaps that's what I feel, that
there's
an outside and an inside and I me in the middle, perhaps
that's what I am, the thing that deivides the world in two,

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perish the thought,
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