Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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Segment 1

[2198.2] on the one side the outside [place = inline] , on the other the inside [place = inline] , that can
be as thin as foil [place = inline] , I'm neither one side nor the other [place = inline] , I'm, I'm
in the middle [place = inline] , I'm in the ^ [place = overwritten] partition [place = inline] , I've two surfaces and no
thickness [place = inline] , pehrpa [place = overwritten] aps that's what I feel [place = inline] , I feel myself vibrating [place = inline] ,
I'm the tympanum [place = inline] , on the one side the skull [place = supralinear] mind [place = inline] , on the other the
world [place = inline] , I don't belong to either [place = inline] , it's not to me they're talking [place = inline] ,
it's not of me they're talking [place = inline] , [2198.3] no [place = inline] , that's not it [place = inline] , I feel nothing
of all that [place = inline] , try something else [place = inline] , herd of swine [place = supralinear] shites [place = inline] , say something

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Segment 2

[2198.3] else [place = inline] , for me to hear [place = inline] , I don't know [place = supralinear] [] how [place = inline] , for me to repeat [place = inline] , I don't
know how [place = inline] , what clowns they are [place = inline] , to keep on saying the same thing
when they know it's not the right one [place = inline] , no [place = inline] , they know nothing [place = inline] ,
either [place = inline] , they forget [place = inline] , they think they change and they never change [place = inline] ,
they'll be there saying the same thing till they die [place = inline] , then perhaps
a little silence [place = inline] , to give [place = supralinear] till the next gang time to arrive [place = inline] s on the
site [place = inline] , I alone am immortal [place = inline] , what can you expect [place = inline] , I can't get born [place = inline] ,
perhaps that's their scheme [place = supralinear] big idea [place = inline] , to keep on saying the same thing [place = inline] ,

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Segment 3

[2198.3] generation after generation [place = inline] , till I lose my temper [place = supralinear] go mad and begin to
sctd [place = overwritten] ream [place = inline] , then they'll say [place = inline] , He's mewled, he's bound to [place = supralinear] he'll rattle [place = inline] , it's
mathematical [place = inline] , let's get out to hell out of e [place = overwritten] here [place = inline] , there's not
point in assisting at [place = supralinear] waiting for that, oth [place = overwritten] thers need us [place = inline] , for him it's over [place = inline] ,
his troubles will be over [place = inline] , he's saved [place = inline] , we've saved him [place = inline] , they're
all the same [place = inline] , they all let themselves be saved [place = inline] , they all let
themselves be born [place = inline] , he was a tough nut [place = inline] , he'll have a brilliant [place = supralinear] great time, [place = supralinear] grand time,
[place = supralinear] a great career [place = inline] , in fury and remorse [place = inline] , he'll never forgive himself [place = inline] , and so

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Segment 4

[2198.3] depart [place = inline] , thus communing [place = inline] , in Indian file [place = inline] , or two by two [place = inline] , along the
seashore [place = inline] , now it's a seashore [place = inline] , on the pebbles [place = supralinear] shingle [place = inline] , on [place = supralinear] along the sands [place = inline] ,
in the evening air [place = inline] , it's evening [place = inline] , that's all is known [place = inline] , evening [place = inline] ,
shadows [place = inline] , somewhere [place = inline] , anywhere [place = inline] , on the earth.

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Segment 5

[2199] My temper [place = supralinear] Go mad [place = inline] , yes [place = inline] , but
there it is [place = inline] , I'll never lose it [place = supralinear] what wd. I go mad with [place = inline] , and evening isn't sure either [place = inline] ,
it needn't be evening [place = inline] , dawn too bestows long shadows [place = inline] , on all
that is still standing [place = inline] , that's all that matters [place = inline] , only the shadows
matter [place = inline] , with no life of their own [place = inline] , no shape and no respite [place = inline] ,
perhaps it's dawn [place = inline] , evening of night [place = inline] , it doesn't matter much [place = inline] ,
and so depart [place = inline] , towards my brethren [place = inline] , no [place = inline] , none of that [place = inline] , no brethren [place = inline] ,

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Doodle 17
Categories:
Shape, Triangle
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