Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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[0307] to see the 2 of them together.[0308] But I am inclined to think I shall.
[0309] For if I were never to see the two of them together, then it
would follow, or should follow, that between their respective
appearances the interval does not vary.
[0310] No, I am wrong.[0311] For
the interval may [] well vary considerably, and it seems to me it does,
without ever being abolished.

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[0312] Nevertheless I am inclined to
think, because of this irregular interval, that my two visitors
may some day meet before my eyes, collide and perhaps knock each other down.
[0313] I have said that here all things recur sooner or later, no, I
was going to say it, then thought better of it.
[0314] But is it
not possible that this does not apply to encounters?

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[0315] The only
encounter I ever witnessed, a long time ago now, has not yet
been repeated.
[0316] It was perhaps the end of something.
[0317] And I shall perhaps be delivered from Malone and the other, not that
they disturb me, the day I see the 2 of them together, that is to
say in collision.
[0318] Unfortunately they are not the only disturbers
of my peace.

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[0319] Others come towrads me, pass before me, wheel about
me.
[0320] And no doubt others still, invisible so far.[0321] I repeat they do
not disturb me.
[0322] But in the long run it might become wearisome.
[0323] I don't see how.[0324] But the possibility must be taken into account.
[0325] One starts things moving without a thought of how to stop
them.
[0326] In order to speak.

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[0327] One starts to speak as if it were
possible to stop at will.
[0328] It is better so.[0329] The search for the
means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables
the discourse to continue.
[0330] No, I must not try to think,[0331] simply
state.
Method or no method I shall have to banish them in the end,
the things, shapes, sounds and lights with which my haste

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[0332] Method or no method I shall have to banish them in the end,
the things, shapes, sounds and lights with which my haste

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