Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2206.6] beast, with xx my feeble strength, such a
beast, with nothing left of his [place = supralinear] its species but
fear and fury, no, the fury is over, nothing
but fear, nothing left of all his due but of all
fear ofhis [place = supralinear] its due but fear, cen-
tupled, fear of his shadow xxx its shadow,
[2206.7] no, it was born blind from birth, fear of
noise [place = supralinear] sound, if you like, then, if you like,
[2206.7] we'll have that, one must have something,
fear of noise [place = supralinear] sound, fear of noises [place = supralinear] sounds, beasts' noises [place = supralinear] sounds,
men's noises, xxx noises in the day and
noises in thesounds of beasts, xxx sounds of it's a pity, but there it is, fear
men, sounds in the day and sounds by
the night
of sound, fear of sounds, the sounds of beasts,
the sounds of men, sounds in the daytime
[2206.7] and sounds by night, that's sufficient, fear
of sounds, all sounds, more or less, more or
less fear, all sounds, there's only one, one
sound, continuous, day and night, what is it,
it's steps coming and coming going, it's
voices speaking for a moment, it's bodies
making their way, it's the air, it's things,
it's the air among things, that's sufficient,
[2206.7] that I seek, like it, no, not like it,
like me, in my in my way, what am I saying,
after my fashion, that I seek, what am [place = supralinear] do I
seeking now, what it is, that must be it,
it must be that, it can only be that, what it
is, what it can be, what what can be, what
I'm seeking [place = supralinear] I seek, no, what I hear, now it comes
back to me, all comes back to me, I seek,
[2206.7] I hear them say I seek what it is I hear,
[2206.8] now it comes back to me, what ca it can
possibly be, and where it can possibly
come from, to my ears to me, since all is
silent here, and the walls are thick, and
how I manage, without feeling an ear on
me, or a head, or a body, or a soul, how I
manage, to do what, why nothing ob-
[2206.8] viously, how I manage, it's not clear,
you say it's not clear, something is lacking
to make it clear, I'll seek, what is lacking,
to maki make everything x clear, xx I I never stop seeking something,
have my
it's xx wearisome in the end, and it's
only the beginning, how I manage, under
such conditions, to do what I'm doing,
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable © 2013 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
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