Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[1822] When later on on earth later
on the storms rage, drowning momentarily the
free expression of opinion, he'll know what's
happening, that the end of the world hasn't come.
[1828] The circumvolutionisation
will be seen to later, when he's brought to the surface.
[1829]
Why then the human voice,[1830] rather than a hyena's howls or the
clanging of a hammer?[1831] Answer, so that the shock
may not be too great, later on, when he sees the writhing
of contortions of real lips.
[1835] They wheel, in jerks, [xx] so that their words
come always from the same direction.[1836] But often they all
speak together at once, they all say simultaneously the same
thing precisely, but so perfectly together that [one wo] it
one would take it for a single voice, a single voice, if one
did not know that God alone can be everywhere, at the
same [mo] time.
[1839] While one [ta] speaks another
looks, [he w] the one no doubt whose turn it is to speak next
and whose remarks eventually possibly will not [necessarily] of necessity be
without [xxx] unrelated to what he may possibly have
seen, this depend[ent] this depending on whether what he
has seen has aroused his interest to the extent of appearing
worthy of mention, even indirectly.
[1840] But what hope
has sustained them, all the time they have been thus
employed?[1841] For it is difficult not to suppose them
[so animate] sustained by some hope or another.[1842] And
what is the nature of the change they are on the look out
for, glueing glueing one eye to the hole and closing
the other?[1843] They have no pedagogic purpose in
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