Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[1654] last moment, just as I am beginning to sizzle, they go out,
smoking and hissing, and nevertheless each time my phlegm is
shattered.[1655] And i,n my head, which I am beginning to locate to
my satisfaction, above and a little to the right, the sparks spurt
and dash themselves out against the walls.
[1656] Sometimes I say to
myself that I am in a head, it's terror makes me say it, and
the longing to be in safety, surrounded lon all sides by massive
bone.[1657] And I add that I am foolish to let myself be frightened
bya by another's thoughts, lacereating my sky with harmless
gleams fires and assailing me with noises signifying nothing.[1658] But one
thing at a time.
[1659] And sometimes all sleeps often all sleeps, as
when I was really Worm, except this voice which has denatured
me, which never stops, but often grows confused and hesitant,
as if it were going to abandon me.[1660] But it is merely a passing
weakness, unless it is done on purpose, to teach me hope.[1661] Strange
thing, ruined as I am and still young in this abjection they
have brought me to, I sometimes seem to remember what I was like
when I was Worm, and not yet delivered into their hands.
[1664] But they'll devise another
means, less childish, of getting me to admit, or pretend to ad-
mit, that I am he whose name they call me by, and no other.
[1665] Or they'll wait, counting on my weariness, as they harrass press me ever
more harder and more harder, to wipe him from my memory who cannot be brought
to the pass they have brought me to, not to mention yesterday,
not to mention and today tomorrow.[Stet]
[1666] And yet it seems to me I re-
member, ad and shall never forget, what I was like when I was
he, before all became confused.[1667] But that is of course impossible,
since Worm could not know what he was like, or who he was, that's
the way how they want me to reason.[1668] And it seems to me too, which is
even more deplorable, that I could become Worm again, if only
I were left in peace.[1669] This transmission is really excellent.[1670] I
wonder if it's going to get us anywhere somewhere.If only they
[1671] If only they
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