Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-9-2

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[1901] there was a time when he did not, the same Worm,
according to them, he has therefore changed, that's
grave, gravid, who knows to what extremes he may
be carried, no matter, he can be trusted.

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[1902] The eye too, of course, is there to put him to flight,
to make him afraid, take fright, badly enough
to break his bonds, they called that bonds,
ah mother of God, the things people say, perhaps
it's tears of hilarity.

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[1903] Well, no matter, let's xxx
xx get on to the end of the joke, we must be nearly
there, and see what they have to offer him, in the
way of bugaboos.
[1904] Who, we?[1905] Don't speak all at once,
together, there's no good in that ei that's no
good either.
[1906] All will be resolved, later on in the
evening, everyone gone and silence restored.

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[1907] No sense in bickering In the meantime no sense in
bickering about pronouns and other parts of blather.
[1908] The subject doesn't matter, there is none.[1909] Worm
being in the singular, as it happens, they are in the
plural, to avoid confusion, confusion confusion
is better avoided, pending the great confounding.

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[1910] x Perhaps there is only one of them, one would do
just as well, but he might get confused with
his victim, that would be abominable, almost
as bad as masturbation regular masturbation.
[1911] We're getting on.[1912] Nothing much then in the way of
sights to see.

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[1913] Who But who can who hasn't been there,
lived there, they call that living, for them the
spark is present, ready to burst into flame,
all it needs is to be preached upon, to become
a living torch, screams included.
[1914] They ca
Then they can go silent, without having to fear
an embarrassing silence, when steps are heard
on graves as the saying is, real torture.

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[1915] Decidedly
this eye (is hard of hearing. hearing) [place = facing leaf] [ADDITION]Addition on page 32vis very longeared .
[1916] Noises travel,
traverse walls, but can the same be said of
appearances?
[1917] By no means, generally speaking.
[1918] But the present case is rather par special.[1919] But what
appearances, it is always well to try and find know
what one is talking about, even at the risk of even at
the risk of being deceived.

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[1920] This grey to begin with,
meant to be depressing no doubt.
[1921] And yet there is
yellow in it, pink too one co apparently, it's
a nice grey, of the kind descri described as going with
everything, urinous and warm.

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[1922] In it In it the
can see, otherwi otherwise why the eye, but dimly,
to put it vaguely, no superfluous avoid superfluous
particulars, doomed to be given the lie to.
[1923] A man
would wonder where his kingdom ended, his eye
would strive to penetrate the gloom, he

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