Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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[1531] every success, in his courageous enterprise undertaking.[1532] And
I am even prepared to coo [place = overwritten] llaborate with hu [place = overwritten] im, as with Mahood and Co,
to the best of my ability, being unable to do otherwise, and know-
ing my ability.
[1533] Worm, to say he does not know what he is, where
he is, what is happening, is an une [place = overwritten] derstatement.
[1534] What he does not
know is that there is anything to know.

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[1535] His senses tell him noth-
ing, nothing about himself, nothing about the rest, and this dis-
tinction is beyond him.
[1536] Feeling nothing, knowing nothing, he
exists nevertheless, but not for himself, for other men, men con-
ceive him and say, Worm is here, since we conceive him, as if
there could be no life but life conceived, if only by him who leads
lu [place = overwritten] ives it.
[1537] Men.[1538] One alone, then others.

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[1539] One alone to [place = overwritten] urned towards the
all-impotent, all-ignorant [place = supralinear] nescient, that haunts [place = supralinear] inhabits him, then others.
[1540] Towards
him whom he would nourish, he the famished one, and who, having
nothing human, has nothing else, has nothing, is nothing.
[1541] Come
into the world unborn, abiding there unliving, with no hope of
death, epicentre of joys, of griefs, of calm.
[1542] Which seems the
truest possession, because the [ [place = inline] /]most unchanging.

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[1543] The one outside
of life we always were in the end, all our long vain life long.
[1544] Who is not spared by the mad need to think speak, to think, to
know where one is, where one was, during the wild [place = supralinear] frantic dream, up above,
under the sky [place = supralinear] ies, venturing forth at night.
[1545] The one ignorant of
himself and silent, ignorant of his silence and silent, who could
not be and gave up trying.

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[1546] Who crouches in their midst who see
themselves in him and in their eyes stares his unchanging stare.
[1547] Thanks for these first notions.[1549] And it's not all.[1550] He who seeks his
true face, let him be of good cheer, he'll find it, convulsed with
anguish, the eyes out on stalks.
[1551] He who desires to have lived,
while he was alive, let him be reassured, life will tell hu [place = overwritten] im how.
[1552] That's all very comforting.
Worm, be Worm, you'll see, it's im-

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[1553] Worm, be Worm, you'll see, it's im-

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