Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-9-3

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Segment 1

[2206.9] no harking, and that I seek, now they
are refreshing my memory, and that
I seek, firstly, what it is, secondly,
where it comes from, and thirdly, how I
manage, that's it, now we've got it, how
I manage, to do it, x seeing that this,
considering that that, x inasmuch as

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Segment 2

[2206.9] God knows what, now we've got it,
now I
that's clear enough, how I
manage, to understand, it's a lie,
what would I understand with, that's
why I'm asking, how I manage, to
understand, oh not the half, not the
hundredth, not the five thousandth,
let us continue to divide by fifty, not

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Segment 3

[2206.9] the quarter millionth, that's suff-
icient, but a little nevertheless, it's
essential, it's preferable, it's a
pity, but there it is, just a little all
the same, the least possible, it's
appreciable, it's sufficient, the rough
meaning of one expression in a thousand,
in ten thousand, let us continue to

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Segment 4

[2206.9] multiply by ten, nothing is more rest-
ful that arithmetic, in a hundred
thousand, in a million, it's too much,
too little, we've gone wrong somewhere,
no matter, there is no great difference
here between one expression and the next,
when you grasp one you grasp them all,
I am not in that fortunate position,

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Segment 5

[2206.9] all, how you exaggerate, and always
for the whole hog, the all of all and
the all of nothing, never in the happy
medium, never, always, it's too
much, too little, often, seldom,
[2206.10] let us now sum up, after this digression,
there is I, I feel it, yes, I confess,
I give in, there is I, it's essential,

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Segment 6

[2206.10] it's preferable, I wouldn't have said
so, I won't always say so, so let me
hasten to take advantage of being now
obliged to say, in a manner of speaking,
that there is I, on the one hand, and this
noise on the other, that I never doubted,
this noise, on the other no, let us be logical,
that was there was never any doubt about that,

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Segment 7

[2206.10] this noise, on the other, if it is the other,
that will doubtless be the subject of our next
deliberation, I sum up, now that I am
there it I x I'll do the summing-up,
I'll it's I will do the summing-up, I'll
say
it's I will do the summing-up, it's
I will say what is to be said and then say

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