Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2025]
And but supposing, instead of suffering less
than the first day, or as much, he suffers
more,
more and more, as time passes, and the
metamorphosis is accomplished,
of unchanging future into unchangeable past.
[2036]
For the moment let him toss and turn at
least, roll on the ground, damn
it all, since there's no other remedy, anything,
to break the monotony.
[2037] Damn it all, look
at the burnt alive, they don't wait to be told,
when they're not tied down, to rush about in
every direction, without method, crackling,
in search of a little cool.
[2040] But simply to
discover without further
assistance the consolations of flight from self,
that's all, he won't go far, he won't need to go far.
[2043] No one asks him to think
, simply to suffer, always in
the same way, without hope of diminution,
without hope of dissolution, it's no more
complicated than that.[2044] No need to think in order to be
without hope.[2045] Agreed then on monotony, it's
more stimulating.[2046] But how can it be ensured?
[2047]
No matter no matter how, they're doing
the best they can, with the wretched means at
their disposal, a voice, a little light, the
poor devils, that's what they're paid for, they
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