Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
L'Innommable / The Unnamable

MS-HRC-SB-5-9-3

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[2297] dead, so as in the end to be a little as I
always was and never could be, without
fear of worse to come peacefully in the
place where I always was and never
could be a rest in peace,
[ADDITION]Addition on page 29vso as in the end to be a little as I always
was and never could be, without fear
of worse to come quietly in the p
peacefully in the place where I always
was and never could rest

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[2297] I do no, I
don't know, it's simpler than that,
I wanted myself, in my own country land,
for a short moment brief space, I didn't want to die

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[2297] a stranger among strangers in the
midst of strangers, a stranger in my own
midst, surrounded by invaders, no,
I don't know what I wanted, I
don't know what I thought, I must
have wanted so many things, I

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[2297] imagined so many things, while I was
talking, without knowing exactly
what, enough to go blind, with longings
and visions, mingling and merging
in one another, I'd have been better
employed minding what I was saying.

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[2298] And anyway it didn't happen like that, it
happened as it is happening now, that is
to say, I don't know, one mustn't believe
what I say, I don't know what I'm
saying, I'm doing as I always did,
I'm going on as best I can.

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[2299] As to
believing that I shall go silent for good
and all, I don't believe it particularly,
I always believed it, as I always
believed that I would never go silent,
you can't call that believing, it's
my walls.
[2300] But has nothing really
changed, all this time?

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[2301.1] If instead
of having to speak I had something
to do, with my hands, or my feet,
sorting out things for example, or simply
arranging things, suppose for the sake
of argument I had to move things
from one place to another, then I'd

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[2301.1] know where I was, and how far I had
got, no, not necessarily, I can see
that from here, they'd contrive things in
such a way that I couldn't suspect
the two vessels, the one to be emptied and
the one to be filled, of being in reality

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[2301.1] one and the same, it would be water,
water, with my thimble xxx I'd go
and xxx in one draw it from one container and go and
pour it into another, or there would be
four, or a hundred, half of them

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