Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2195.3] perhaps it's worse.
[2196] So much for the you [place = inline] , that's the you off
our mind.[2197] And now for the it [place = inline] , which I prefer [place = supralinear] it [place = supralinear] that [place = inline] , which I must
say I prefer [place = supralinear] [⁁] that [place = inline] , what a memory [place = inline] , real fly-paper [place = inline] , I don't know [place = inline] ,
I don't prefer it [place = supralinear] [⁁] any more [place = inline] , that's all I know [place = inline] , so why bother about
it [place = inline] , a thing you don't prefer [place = inline] , imagine [place = supralinear] just think of that [place = inline] , bothering about
that [place = inline] , not on your life [place = supralinear] likely [place = inline] , [place = margin left] perish the thought, one must wait [place = inline] , discover a preference [place = inline] ,
within one's bosom [place = inline] , then it will be time enough to institute
an inquiry.
[2198.1] Moreover [place = inline] , that's right [place = inline] , connect [place = supralinear] link [place = inline] , connect [place = supralinear] link [place = inline] , you never
know [place = inline] , moreover their attitude towards me has not changed [place = inline] , I am
deceived [place = inline] , they are deceived [place = inline] , they have deceived me [place = inline] , they have
tried to deceive me [place = inline] , saying that their attitude towards me
had changed [place = inline] , but they haven't deceived me [place = inline] , i [place = overwritten] I didn't understand
what they were trying to do [place = inline] , I didn't understand what they
were trying to do to me [place = inline] , I say what I'm told to say [place = inline] , that's
all there is to it [place = inline] , perhaps more than there is [place = inline] , [place = supralinear] and yet I wonder, I don't know [place = inline] ,
[2198.1] I don't feel a mouth on me [place = inline] , I don't feel the [place = supralinear] jostle of words jostling
in my mouth [place = inline] , and when you say a poem you like [place = inline] , if you like
poetry, in the tube [place = supralinear] underground [place = inline] , or in bed [place = inline] , for yourself [place = inline] , the words are
there [place = inline] , somewhere [place = inline] , without the least sound [place = inline] , I don't feel that
either [place = inline] , words falling [place = inline] , you [place = supralinear] don't know not where [place = inline] , you [place = supralinear] don't know not whence [place = inline] ,
drops of silence through the silence [place = inline] , I don't feel it [place = inline] , I don't
feel a mouth on me [place = inline] , nor a head [place = inline] , do I feel an ear [place = inline] , frankly
now [place = inline] , do I feel an ear [place = inline] , well frankly I don't [place = inline] , so much the worse [place = inline] ,
[2198.1] I don't feel an ear either [place = inline] , [2198.2] this is awful [place = inline] , make an effort [place = inline] ,
I must feel something [place = inline] , yes [place = inline] , I feel something [place = inline] , they say I
feel something [place = inline] , I don't know what it is [place = inline] , I don't know what I
feel [place = inline] , x [place = overwritten] tell me what I feel [place = supralinear] and I'll tell you who I am [place = inline] , they'll tell
me who I am [place = inline] , I won't understand [place = inline] , but the thing will be said [place = inline] ,
they will have said who I am [place = inline] , and I'll have heard [place = inline] , without an
ear I'll have heard [place = inline] , and I'll have said it [place = inline] , without a mouth
I'll have said it [place = inline] , I'll have heard it inside me [place = inline] , then in the
[2198.2] same breath outside me [place = inline] , perhaps that's what I feel [place = inline] , that an outside and an inside and
there'sI [place = supralinear] me in the middle [place = inline] , perhaps
that's what I am [place = inline] , the thing that deivides the world in two [place = inline] ,
- Segments
- Marginal Additions
L'Innommable / The Unnamable © 2013 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, Shane Weller and Vincent Neyt