Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-9-3

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[2206.10] what it was, that will be fun, I
sum up, I and this noise, I see nothing
else for the moment, but I have only just
taken over my functions, I and this noise,
and what about it, don't interrupt me,
I'm doing my best, I repeat, I and this
noise, two things, on the subject of which,
inverting the natural order, we would seem

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[2206.10] to know for certain among other things, what
follows, namely, on the one hand, with regard to
the noise, that it has not been possible up to now
to determine with certainty, or even approx-
approximately, what it is,
in the way of noise,
or how it comes to me, nor by what
organ it is emitted, nor by what perceived,

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[2206.10] nor by what intelligence apprehended, in
its main drift, and, on the other hand, that
is to say with regard to me, this is going to
take a little longer, with regard to me, nice
time we're going to have now, that it has not
been [ADDITION]Addition on page 19vyet our good fortune to establish with least degree of
accuracy what I am, where I am, whether
I am words among words, or whether I

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[2206.10] am silence in the midst of silence, to re-
call only two of the hypotheses launched in
this connexion, though
silence to tell the truth has not been very
conspicuous up to now, [2206.11] but appearances
are deceptive, I resume, not yet
our good fortune to establish, among other
things, what, no, already mentioned,

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[2206.11] what I'm doing, how I manage to hear,
if I hear, if it is I who hear, and who can
doubt, I don't know, doubt is present, in this connexion, somewhere
or other, I resume, how I succeed in hearing,
if it's I who hear, and how in
understanding, ellipse when possible, it saves time, how in understanding,

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[2206.11] same observation, and how it happens,
if it's I who speak, and it may be assumed
it is, as it may
be suspected it is not, if it's I who speak,
that I speak without stopping, that I long
to stop, that I can't stop, I indicate the principal divisions,
it's more synoptic, I resume, not the

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[2206.11] good fortune to establish, with regard to
me, if it's I who seek, what exactly it
is I seek, find, lose,
find again, throw away,
find again, throw away

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