Digital Manuscript ProjectL'Innommable / The Unnamable

[2325.2] of, well, so that's emotion, and
what trains are, and the meaning
of your back to the engine, and
guards, stations, platforms, wars,
love, heartrending cries, that must
be the mother-in-law, she cries her cries are heartrending,
heartrending
while she takes down her son, or
[2325.2] her son-in-law, I don't know,
it must be her son, xxx the since she cries, and the door,
cries
the house door of the house is closed [place = supralinear] bolted [place = facing leaf] [ADDITION]Addition on page
43vbolted ,
when she got back from the station
she found the housedoor closed [place = supralinear] bolted [place = facing leaf] [ADDITION]Addition on page
43vbolted ,
who closed [place = facing leaf] [ADDITION]Addition on page
43vbolted [place = supralinear] it, he the better xx to
hang himself, or the mother-in-law
[2325.3] teach me how to reason, it was to
tempt me to go there, to the place
where you can come to an end, I must
have been a good pupil, up to a certain
point, I couldn't get beyond a certain
point, I can understand that their
being cross with me, this evening I
begin to understand, oh it's not
[2325.3] there's no danger, it' it is not I, it
was not I, the door, it's the door
that interests me, it's of wood, who
closed [place = supralinear] bolted the door, and for what pur-
pose, I'll never know, that's a story
for you, I thought they were over,
all forgotten, perhaps it's a new
one, lepping fresh, is it the return
[2325.3] to the world of fable, no, only a
reminder, so that I may regret what
I have lost, so that I may long again
to be in the place I was banished from,
unfortunately it doesn't remind me
of anything.
[2326.1] The silence, speak of the
silence, before going into it, have I been
there already, I don't know, at every
instant I am there, there I am speaking
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable © 2013 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
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