Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[1096] To have forever before my eyes, when I open them, approximately
the seat same set of hallucinations exactly, is a joy I might have
never known, but for my cang.[1097] There is really only one thing
that worries me, and that is the prospect of being throttled
if I should ever happen to shorten further.[1098] Asphyxia![1099] I who was
also always the respiratory type,[1100] witness this thoracic cage (?) still mine
still, together with the addomen.
[1101] I who murmured, at every inhal-
ation, Here comes the oxygen again, and each time I breathed out,
There go the impurities, the blood is bright red again once more.[1102] The blue
face.[1103] The obscene protrusion of the tongue.[1104] The tumefaction of
the penis.[1105] The penis, that's a pleasant surprise, I'd forgotten I had one.
[1106] What a pity I have no arms, there might still be something to
be squeezed wrung from it.[1107] No, tis better thus.
[1108] At my age, to start
manstuprating again, it would be indecent.[1109] And fruitless.[1110] [⁁] And yet one never knows After
all, not necessarily one can never be sure.[1111] With a uyo heave ho, concentrating with all
my might on a horse's rump, at the moment when the tail rises,
who knows, I might not go altogether emptyhanded away.[1112] Heavens,
did I fe I almost felt it flutter![1113] Does this mean they did not
geld me?[1114] I could have sworn they had gelt me.
[1115] But perhaps I am
getting miexed up with thinking of confusing with other scrota.[1116] Not another stir out of it
in any case.[1117] I'll concentrate again.[1118] A Shropshire.[1119] Come, come,
a little cooperation, please, , finish dying, it's the least you
might do, after all the trouble they have taken to bring you to
life.[1120] The worst is over.[1121] They have You have been sufficiently assassinated, you,
sufficiently suicided you, for you to be able now to stand on your
own feet, like a big boy.[1122] And tThat's what I tell myself?.
[1123] And I add,
in a passion quite carried away, Slough off this immortal inertia, it is out of place,
in this society.[1124] They can't do everything.[1125] They have put you on
the right road, they have led you by the hand to the very edge brink
of the precipice, now it's up to you, with an unassisted last step,
to show them your gratitude.[1126] I like this colourful language,, these
bold mat metaphors and apostrophes.Through the splendours of nature
[1127] Through the splendours of nature
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