Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2322.3] it's not difficult, our concern is with
someone, or our concern is with something,
there we are at last, that is not here,
there, or that is not anywhere, or that
is there, here, why not, after all,
and with speaking of that, now we have
it, you don't know why, why you must
speak of that, but there it is, you can't,
[2322.3]
no one can speak of that, you speak
of yourself, someone speaks of himself,
that's it, in the singular, a single one,
the appointed, he, I, no matter, the
appointed speaks of himself, it's not
that, of others, not that either,
he doesn't know, how could he know,
whether he has spoken of it or not
[2322.4]
and yet I speak, perhaps it's of him,
I'll never know, how could I know,
who could know, who knowing could
tell me, I don't know who it's all about,
that's all I know, no, I must know
something else, they must have taught
me something, it's about him who
[2322.4]
knows nothing, wants nothing, can nothing,
does not know anything, does not want
anything, is not capable of [place = supralinear] incapable of anything,
if when you want nothing it is possible to don't want anything it
be incapable of any
is possible to be incapable of anything, who
can neither speak nor hear, who is I, who
[2322.4]
cannot be I, of whom I can't speak, of
whom I must speak, that that is all
hypotheses, I said didn't say anything,
someone didn't say anything, it is not
a question of hypotheses, it's a question
of going on, it goes on, hypotheses are
like everything else, they xx help you to
[2322.4]
go on, as if there were xxx there were need
of help, that's right, impersonally, as
if there were need of help to go on with
a thing that can't stop, and yet it
will, it will stop, do you hear, the
voice says it will stop, some day, it
says it will never stop and it says it
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable © 2013 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
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