Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

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[1968] alive and kicking?

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[1969] I have endured, that must be it, I shouldn't
have endured, but I feel nothing, yes yes, this voice, I have
lendured it, I didn't fly from it, I should have fled, Worm should
have fled, but where, how, he's riveted, Worm should have draggeed
himself away, no matter where, towrads them, the azure, but how

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[1969] could he, he can't stir, it needn't be bonds, there are no bonds
here, it's as if I he he were rooted, that's bonds if you like, the
earth would have to quake, it isn't earth, one doesn't know what
it is, it's like sargasso, no, it's like lo molasses, no, no matter,
an eruption is what's needed, to vomit spew me him into the light.

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[1970] But
what calm, apart from the discourse, not a breath, it's suspicious,
the calm that precedes life, no no, not all this time, it's like
slime, paradise, it would be paradise, but for this vnoicse, it's
life trying to get in, no, trying to get him out, or little bubbles
bursting all around, no, there's no air here, air is to make you
choke, light is to close your eyes, that's where he must go, where
it's never dark, , but here it's never dark either, yes, here it's
dark, it's [/]they who make this grey, with their lamps.

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[1971] When they go,
when they go silent, it will be dark, snot a sound, not a glimmer,
but they'll never go, yes, they'll go silent perhaps, and go away,
one day, one evening, slowly, sadly, in Indian file, casting long
shadows, towards their master, who will punish them, or spare them,
there's nothigne else, up above, for those who lose, punishment,
pardon, so they say.
[1972] What have you done with your material?

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[1973] We
have left it behind.
[1974] But commanded to say whether yes or no they
filled up the holes, have you filled up the holes yes or no, they
will syaay yes and no, or some will say yes, others no, at the same
time, not knowing what answer the master wants, to his question.
[1975] But both are defendable, both yes and no, for they did fill up
the holes, if you klilke, and if you don't like they didn't, for
they didn't know what to do, on departing, whether to fill up the
holes or, on the contrary, leave them gaping wide.

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[1976] So they fixed
their lamps in the holes, their long times lamps, to prevent them
closing by of themselves, it's like potter's clay, their powerful
lamps, lit and trained on the within, to

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