Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[1101] I who murmured, when
I remembered, at every inhalation,
Here comes the oxygen again, and each time
I breathed out, There go the impurities,
the blood is bright red again.
[1108] At my age, to start masturbating manstuprating again,
it would be indecent.[1109] And fruitless.
[1110] After all, one never knows.[1111] With
a yo heave ho
and concentrating with all my strength
on a horse's rump, at the moment when
the tail rises, who knows, I might not
go empty-handed away.
[1112] Heavens, I almost
felt it flutter![1113] Does this mean they didn't
geld me?[1114] I could have sworn they had
gelt me.[1115] But perhaps I am getting muddled up
with other scrota (bags, pouches,
purses).[1116] Not another stir out of it in any
case.[1117] I'll concentrate again.[1118] A Cleveland.
[1119] Come, come, a little cooperation, please,
finish dying, it's the least you might do, after
all the trouble they've taken, to bring you to life.[1120] The worst is over.
[1121] They've sufficiently assassinated
you, sufficiently suicided you, for you to
stand now on your own feet, like a big boy.
[1122] That's what I tell myself.[1123] And I add, in
a passion, Slough off this immortal
inertia, it's out of place, in this society.
[1124] They can't do everything.[1125] They have put
you on the right road, they have led you
by the hand to the very edge of the precipice,
now it's up to you, with an unassisted last
step, to show them your gratitude.
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