Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-10

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Segment 1

[1623] long.[1624] Don't tell me after that I had no predispositions for
the human condition man's estate.
[1625] What a weary road since that first mis-
fortune,
[1626] what nerves torn alive from the heart of insentience,
with the appertaining terror and the cerebellum on fire.
[1627] He was It took
a long time adapting him a long time to adapt himself to this excoriation.
[1628] To realize
that bah pooh it's nothing.
[1629] A trifle.[1630] The human l common lot.[1631] A joke.

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[1632] That will not last for ever.[1633] To be made the most of while it gathered while I may For me to gather while I may.
lasts.
[1634] They mentioned roses.[1635] I'll end up by smelling them. Then smell them before I'm finished.
[1636] Tghen they'll put the accent on the throrns.[1637] What prodigious
variety.
[1638] The thorns they'll have to come and stick into me, as
into their unfortunate Jesus.
[1639] No, I need nobody, they'll start
srpouting under my arse, unaided, some day I feel myself soaring
above my estate condition.

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[1640] A billybowl of thorns and the air
sweetsmelling perfume laden.
[1641] But not so fast.[1642] I still leave much to be desired,
I have no technique, none.
[1643] For example, in case you don't believe
me, I don't yet know how to move, either locally, in relation
to myself, or bodily, in relation to the shit.
[1644] I don't know how
to want to, I want to in vain.
[1645] What doesn't come to me from me has
come to the wrong address.

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[1646] Similarly my understanding is not
yet sufficiently well oiled to function without the pressure of
some critical circumstance, such as a viomlent pain felt for the
first time.
[1647] Some nice point in semantics, for example, of a
nature to accelerate the march of the hours, could ntot retain
my attention.
[1648] For others the time-abolishing joys of impersonal
and disinterested speculation.

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[1649] I only think, if that is the
name for this vertihginous panic as of hornets sm o smoked out
of their nest, once a certain degree of terror has been exceeded.
[1650] Does this mean that I am less exposed to it, by the grace of inure-
ment?
[1651] To think so would be to underestimate the extent of the
repertory in which I am plunged and which, it appears, is nothing
compared to what is waiting for me at the conclusion xxx of the
novitiate.

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[1652] These lights gleaming low afar, then rearuing up in
a blaze and sweeping down upon me, blinding, to devour me, are
merely one example.
[1653] My familiarity with them avails me nothing,
each time they invariably give me to reflect.
Each time up to now at the
last moment, just

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Segment 7

[1654] Each time up to now at the
last moment, just

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Doodle 11
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