Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[1527] living, in a kind of way, in the only
possible way?[1528] That's the combination.
[1529]
Or by the absurd prove to me that I am,
the absurd not being able.[1530] Unfortunately
it is no help my being forewarned, I never
remain so for long.[1531] In any case I wish
him every success, in his courageous under-
taking.
[1532] And I am even prepared to
collaborate with him, as with Mahood and
Co, to the best of my ability, being unable
to do otherwise, and knowing my ability.
[1533]
Worm, to say he does not know what he is,
where he is, what is happening, is an under-
statement.[1534] What he does not is that there
there is anything to know.
[1535] His senses tell him
nothing, nothing about himself, nothing
about the rest, and this distinction is unknown
to him.
[1539] One alone turned towards the
all-impotent, all-ignorant, that haunts
him, then others.[1540] Towards him whom he
would nourish, he the famished one, and who,
having nothing human, has nothing else, has
nothing, is nothing.[1541] Come into the world unborn,
abiding there unliving, with no hope of death,
epicentre of joys, of griefs, of calm.
[1542]
Which seems the truest possession,
because the most unchanging.[1543] The one
outside of life we always were in the end[⁁], all our
long vain life long.[1544] Who is not spared by the
mad need to speak, to think, to know what one
is, what one was, during the wild dream,
up above, under the sky, venturing forth at night.
[1545]
The one ignorant of himself and silent [ADDITION]Addition on page
17vThe one who in speechless ignorance
of himself , ignorant
of his silence and silent, who could not be and
gave up trying.[1546] Who crouches in
their midst who see themselves in
him and .
in their eyes stares his unchanging stare.
[1547]
Thanks for these first notions.[1548] They are en-
couraging.[1549] And it's not all.[1550] He who searches
for his true face, let him be of good cheer,
he'll find it, convulsed with anguish, and the
eyes out on stalks.[1551] He who desires to have
lived, while he was alive, let him be
reassured, life will tell him how.
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