Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[0769] The children grew in stature,
periods [⁁] [ADDITION]Addition on page
32vpale the periods of Ptomaine, and
the two old ones glowered at
each other, saying, I'll bury you yet,
You'll bury me yet.
[0770] Since my arrival
they had a subject of conversation,
and even of discussion, the same as of yore,
at the time of my departure,
perhaps even an interest in life, the same as
of yore.[0771] Time hung less heavy on their
hands.[0772] What about throwing him something
to eat?[0773] No, no, it might upset him.
[0783] Oh he was always like that,
ever since he was a tiny tot, always
stopping, wasn't he, Granny?[0784] Yes indeed,
never easy, always stopping.[0785] According
to Mahood I never got there, that is to say
they all died first, the whole ten or
eleven of them carried off by sausage poisoning,
in appalling pain.
[0786] Incommoded first
by their shrieks, then by the stench of
putrefaction, I had turned back.[0787] But
let us not anticipate, otherwise we'll
never arrive.[0788] It's no longer I in any case.
[0789] Will he ever get there, at his present rate of
going?[0790] He looks as
if he had slowed down, since last year.
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