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 tha[t] 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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