Samuel Beckett
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L'Innommable / The Unnamable
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Version 01: MS-HRC-SB-5-9-3 No point either in your thirst, your hunger , no, no need of hunger, thirst is enough, in your thirst, no point in telling yourself stories, to pass the time, stories don't pass the time, nothing passes it , that doesn't matter, that's the way it is, you tell yourself stories, then any old thing, saying, No more stories from now , whereas they it's stories still, or rather there were never any stories, it was always any old thing, for as long as you can remember, no, rather longer than that, you don't remember anything , always any old thing, always the same old thing, to pass the time, and then , as time didn't pass, without for no reason , in your thirst, trying to stop , unable to stop , seeking why, why the cause of the cause of this need to talk, this need to stop, this inability to stop , finding the cause, losing it again, finding it again , not finding it again, seeking no longer, seeking again, finding again, losing again, seeking no longer, seeking again, finding nothing, finding at last, losing again, talking without stopping , as thirsty as ever, seeking as usual, losing as usual, talking away, seeking again, wondering what, what it's all about, seeking what it can be you seek , exclaiming, Ah yes, sighing , No no, groaning , Enough, ejaculating, Not yet, seeking anew, losing your head, seeking your head, talking incessantly , any old thing , seeking once more, any old thing, thirsting away, you don't know for what , ah yes, something to do, no no, nothing more to be done, since when, since time began , and enough of that, unless perhaps, that's an idea, let us seek there, one last effort, seek what, very true , let us try and discover , before we can , what it can be, before we seek there, where, talking unceasingly, seeking incessantly , in yourself, outside yourself, seeking no longer , losing your head , cursing God, stopping cursing, being damned if you can bear unable to bear it any more , going on bearing , seeking indefatigably, in nature, the world of nature, the world of man, not knowing what, not know where, where is nature, what's man , what are you seeking, who is seeking, seeking who you are, ultimate ab supreme aberration, where you are, what you're doing, what you've done to them, what they've done to you, talking fluently , where are the others, who is talking, it's not I, where am I, where is it where I've always been, where are the others, it's they are talking, talking to me, talking of me, I hear them, I'm dumb , what do they want, what have I done to them, what have I done to God, what have they done to God, what has God done to us, nothing, and we've done nothing to him, you can't do anything to him, he can't do anything to us, we're innocent, he's innocent, it's nobody's fault, what's nobody's fault, this state of affairs, what state of affairs, so it is, so be it, don't worry, it will be so, what will be so, so what, speaking talking excitably , parched with thirst, losing your head, seeking determinedly, seeking no longer, seeking again, what do they want, they want to be, this, that, they want to me to howl, stir, emerge from here, be born, die, listen, I'm listening, it's enough not enough, I must understand, I'm do I'm trying doing my best, I can't , I stop doing my best, I can't do my best, I've had enough , poor darling wretch , so have they, let them say tell me what they want, give give me something to do, within my power to do, poor wretches , they can't, they don't know, they're like me , more and more, no more need of them, no more need of anyone , no one can do anything, it's I am talking , thirsting, starving, in the xxx ice and in the furnace, you feel nothing, strange, you don't feel a mouth , you don't feel on you, you don't feel the mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, in me, outside within me, outside me, well well , listen to that , a minute ago I had no thickness, I hear them, no need to hear them, no need of a head, impossible to stop them, impossible to stop, I'm inside of words in words, made of words, others' words, what others, the place too, the air too, xxx the walls, the ground, the floor , the ceiling, words, the whole universe is here , with me, I'm the air, the walls, the walled-in one, everything gives way , opens , flows , ebbs, flows, flakes, I'm all these flakes, meeting, mingling , falling asunder, wherever I go I find myself , leave myself , go towards me, come from me, nothing but me ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, words, I am all these words, all these strangers, this dust of word dust, dust of words, with no ground to settle on, no sky to scatter through for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, meeting to say coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that mingle , those that part, those strangers among strangers , and nothing else nothing but them, yes, nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a dumb thing in an hard place, empty place, a hard , shut, dry, cold, black an empty an empty, closed, a hard, shut , dry , fxxx cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, and that I seek, like caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, born of caged beasts born and dead in a cage, born and then dead, born in a xx cage and then dead in a cage, in a word like a beast, in one of their words, like such a beast, and that I seek, like such a beast, with xx my feeble strength, such a beast, with nothing left of his its species but fear and fury, no, the fury is over , nothing but fear, nothing left of all his due but fear of of all his its due but fear, centupled, fear of his shadow xxx its shadow, no, it was born blind from birth, fear of noise sound, if you like, then, if you like, we'll have that, one must have something, fear of noise sound, fear of noises sounds, beasts' noises sounds, men's noises, xxx noises in the day and noises in the sounds of beasts, xxx sounds of men, sounds in the day and sounds by the night it's a pity, but there it is, fear of sound, fear of sounds, the sounds of beasts, the sounds of men, sounds in the daytime and sounds by night, that's sufficient, fear of sounds, all sounds, more or less, more or less fear, all sounds, there's only one , one sound , continuous, day and night, what is it, it's steps coming and coming going, it's voices speaking for a moment, it's bodies making their way, it's the air, it's things, it's the air among things, that's sufficient , that I seek, like it, no, not like it, like me, in my in my way, what am I saying, after my fashion , that I seek, what am do I seek ing now, what it is , that must be it , it must be that, it can only be that, what it is, what it can be, what what can be, what I'm seeking I seek, no, what I hear, now it comes back to me, all comes back to me, I seek , I hear them say I seek what it is I hear , now it comes back to me, what ca it can possibly be, and where it can possibly come from, to my ears to me, since all is silent here, and the walls are thick, and how I manage , without feeling an ear on me, or a head, or a body, or a soul, how I manage, to do what, why nothing obviously, how I manage, it's not clear , you say it's not clear, something is lacking to make it clear, I'll seek, what is lacking , to maki make everything x clear, xx I have my I never stop seeking something, it's xx wearisome in the end, and it's only the beginning, how I manage, under such conditions, to do what I'm doing, what am I doing, I must find out what I'm doing, tell me what I'm doing , I'll in ask how it is possible, I hear, you say I hear, that and that I seek, it's a lie, I seek nothing, nothing any more, no matter, let's leave it, 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 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 the quarter millionth, that's sufficient , 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 multiply by ten, nothing is more restful that 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 what it was, that will be fun , I xx 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 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 with approximately with xx approximately , what it is, in the w by way of noise in the way of noise, nor or how it comes to me, nor by what organ it is emitted, nor by what perceived, 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 yet been given to us yet 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 am silence in the midst of silence, to recall only two of the hypotheses xxx launched in this connexion, though to tell the truth silence to tell the truth has not been very conspicuous up to now, but appearances are deceptive , I resume, not yet been xxx our good fortune to establish, among other things, what , no , already mentioned , 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, th doubt is there is felt is present, in this connexion, somewhere or other, I resume, how I manage to succeed in hearing , if it's I who hear, and to understand how to in understanding , ellipse when possible, it's time it saves time, how in understanding , same observation, and how it happens, if it's I who speak, and it may be assumed as it may be questioned, 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 xxx xxx the indicate the principal divisions, it's more synoptic, I resume, not the good fortune to establish, with regard to me, if it's I who seek, what exactly it is I seek, find, lose, find xxx xxx, find again xxx away, xxx xxx find again, throw away , find once more, again, throw away again, no, I never threw anything away, never threw anything away of all the things I found, never found anything that I didn't lose, never lost anything that I might xxx xxx might not have thrown away, if it's I who seek, find, lose, find again, lose again, seek again, seek in vain , seek again, find again, lose again , seek no more, if it's I what it is, and if it's not I who it is, and what it is, I see nothing else for the moment, yes I do, I conclude, the good fortune to establish, seeing the fut in xxxing t considering the futility of telling oneself even any old thing, to pass the time, why I do it, if it's I who do it, as if reasons were necessary required for doing any old thing, to pass the time, no matter, one the question may be asked, off the record, why time does not pass, does not pass from you, why it piles up all about you, instant on instant, on every hand all sides, hi deeper and deeper, thicker and thicker, your time, others' time, the time of the ancient dead and of the unborn dead yet unborn, why it x buries you grain by grain neither dead nor alive, with no memory of anything, no hope of anything, no knowledge of anything, no story history and no future , buried under the seconds, saying any old thing, your mouth full of sand, xxx oh I know it's beside the point immaterial, time is one thing, I am another, but the question may be asked, why time does not pass, just like that, off the record , en passant, to pass the time, I think that's all, for the moment, I see nothing else, I see nothing whatever, for the time being.
Version 02: MS-HRC-SB-5-10 No point either , in your thirst, your hunger , no, no need of hunger, thirst is enough, in your thirst, no point in telling yourself stories, to pass the time, stories don't pass the time, nothing passes the time , that doesn't matter, that's the way it is, you tell yourself stories, then any old thing, saying, No more stories forom now on , whereas it's stories still, or rather there were never any stories, it was always any old thing, for as long as you can remember, no, a little longer than that, you don't remember anything nothing , always any old thing, always the same old thing, to pass the time, and then as time didn't pass, for no reason at all , in your thirst, trying to stop , unable to stop , searching for seeking the cause , the cause of this need to talk, of this inabiluity to stop , finding the cause, losing it again, finding it againn , not finding it again, search seeking ing no longer, searching seeking again, finding again, losing again, searching seeking no more, searching seeking again, finding nothing, finding at last, losing again, talking without stopping , as thirsty as thirstier than ever, srearching seeking as usual, losing as usual, talking blathering away, searching seeking again again, wondering for what, what it's all about, searching for seeking what it can be you are searching for seeking , exclaiming, Ah yes, sighing No no, crying , Enough, ejaculating, Not yet, searching seeking anew, losing your head, searching for seeking your head, talkigng incessantly , any old thing , searching seeking once more, for any old thing, thirsting away you don't know for what away, you don't know for what , ah yes, for something to do, no no, nothing more to be done, since when, the beginning of time , and now enough of that, unless perhaps, thayt's an idea, let's search seek over there, one last effort, search for seek what, pertinent objection , let us try and discover , before we search seek , what it can be, before we search seek over there, over where, talking unceasingly, searching seeking inceassantly , in yourself, outside yourself, searching seeking no longer losing your head , cursing God, stopping cursing, unable to past bearing any more it , going on bearing it, searching seeking indefatigably, in the world of nature, the world of man, not know where, where is nature, where is man , what are you searching for are seeking, who is searching seeking, searching for seeking who you are, supreme aberration, where you are, what you're doing, what you'bve done to them, what they've done to you, taloking fluently babbling along , where are the others, who is taling talking, not I, where am I, where is it the place where I've always been, where are the others, it is they are talking, talking to me, talking of me, I'm I hear them, I'm dumb speechless , what do they want, what have I done to them, what have I done to God, what have they done to God, what has God done to us, nothing, and we've done nothing to him, you can't do anything to him, he can't do anything to us, we're innocent, he's innocent, it's nobody's fault, what's nobody's fault, this state of affairs, what state of affairs, so it is, so be it, don't fret, so it will be , how so, talking excitably rattling on , parched with dying of thirst, losing your head, searching seeking dtereminedly, searching seeking no longer, searching seeking again, what do it is they they want, they want me to be, this, that, they want me to howl, stir, emerge from here, be born, die, listen, I'm listening, Iit's not enough, I must understand, I'm doing my best, I can't undefrstand , I stop doing my best, I can't do my best, I've had enough , poor darling so have they devil , so have they, let them tell me what they want, give me spomething to do, within my power something doable to do, poor devils , they can't, they don't know, they're like me ; , more and more, no more need of them, no more need of any one , no one can do anything, it's I am talking , thirsting, starving, in the ice and in the furnace, you feel nothing, strange, you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, within me, outside me, well well , listen to that , , a minute ago I had no thickness, I hear them, no need to hear them, no need of a head, impossible to stop them, impossible to stop, I'm in words, made of words, others' words, what others, the place too, the air , the walls, the floor , the ceiling, words, the whole universe is ghere, with me, I'm the air, the walls, the walled-in one, everything yields , opens , ebbs, flows, like flakes, I'm all these flaskes flakes, meeting, mingling , falling asunder, wherevr I go, wherever I go I find myself me , leave myself me , go towards me, come from me, nothing ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, words, I am all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their setting, so sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge , those that part, those strangers never meet , and nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a dumb thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, adnd that I seek, like a caged beast born of caged beasts born of caged beatsts borns of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, a caged beast born of caged beatsts born and dead in a cage, born and then dead, born in a cage and then dead in a cage, in a word like a beast, in one of their words, like such a beast, and that I seek, like such a beast, with my feeble strength, such a beast, with nothing left of its species but fear and fury, no, the fury is past , nothing but fear, nothing left of all its due but fear, centupled, fear of its shadow, no, blind from birth, of sound then, if you like, we'll have that, one must have something, its a pity, but there it is, fear of soun sound, fear of sounds, the sounds of beasts, the sounds of men, sounds in the daytime and sounds at night, that's sufficient, fear of sounds, all sounds, more or less, more or less fear, all sounds, there's only one , one sound , continuous, day and night, what is it, it's steps coming and going, it's voices speaking for a moment, , it's bodies making their way, its it's the air, it's things, it'sthe it's the air among things, that's sufficient , that I seek, like it, no, like me not like it, like me, in my own way, what am I saying, after my fashion , that I seek, what do I seek now, what it is , it must be that, it can only be that, what it is, what it can be, what what can be, what I seek, no, what I hear, now it comes back to me, all back to me, I seek , I hear them say I seek what it is I hear , now it comes back to me, what it can possibly be, and where it can possibly com come from, to me, since all is silent here, and the walls thick, and how I mabnage , without feeling an ear on me, or a head, or a body, or a soul, how I manage, to do what, why nothing obviously, how I manage, it's not clear , dear dear , you say it's not clear, something is lacking wanting to make it clear, I'll seek, what is lacking wanting , to make everything clear, I'm always seeking something, it's wearisome in the end, and it's only the beginning, how I manage, under such conditions, to do what I'm doing, what am I doing, I must find out what I'm doing, tell me what you're doing , and I'll ask how it's is possible, I hear, you say I hear, adnd that I seek, it's a lie, I seek nothing, nothing any more, no matter, let's leave it, no harking, and that I seek, now they are listen to them refreshing jogging 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, seeing that this, considering that that, inasmuch as God knows what, that's clear enough now , how I manage , to hear, and 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 hudreth hundredth, nor the five thousandth, let us go on dividing by fifty, nor the quarter millionth, that's sufficient , 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 at a thousand, in ten thousand, let us go on multiplying by ten, nothing is more restful than 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 g grasp them all, I am not in that fortunate position, all, how you exaggerate go ov , always for the whole hog, the all of all and the all of nothing, never in the happy mean , never, always, it's too much, too little, often, seldom, let me now sum up, after this digression, there is I, it's essential, it's preferable I feel it , yes , I confess, I give in, therei there is I, it's essential, 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 theo one hand, and this noise on the other, that I never doubted, no, let us be logical, there was never any doubt about that, this noise, on the other, if it is the other, that will doubteless be the subject of our next deliberation, I sum up, now that I am there it's I will do the summing up , it's I will say what is to be said and then say 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 subkject of which, inverting the natural order, we would seem 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 date to determine with certainty, or even apporximately , what it is, in the way of noise, or how it comes to me, or by what organ it is emitted, or by what perceived, or by what intelligence apprehended, in its main drift, and , on the other , 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, with regard to me, that it has not been yet our good fortune to establish with any degree of accuracy what I am, where I am, whether I am words among words, or whethrer I am silence in the midst of silence, to recall only two of the hypotheses launched in this connexion, though silence to tell the truth has not been very conspicuous up to now, but appearances are deceptibve , I resume, not yet our good fortune to establish, among other things, what , no , no, already mentioned that what I am, no, already mentioned that , what I'm doing, how I manage , to hear, if I hear, ifit it is I who hear, and who can doubt it , 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 , same observation, and how it happens, if it is 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 good fortune to establish, with regard to me, if it is I who seek, what exactly it is I seek, find, lose, find again, throw away , find again, throw away again, no, I never threw anything away, never threw anything away of all the things I found, never found anything that I didn't lose, never lost anything that I might not have thrown away, if it is I who seek, find, lose, find again, lose again, seek again, seek in vain , seek again, find again, lose again , seek no more, Iif it's I what it is, and if it's not I who it is, and what it is, I see nothing else for the moment, yes , I do, I conclude, not the good fortune to establish, considering the futility of my telling myself even any old thing, to pass the time, why I do it, if it's I who do it, as if reasons were required for doing any old thing, to pass the time, no matter, the question may be asked, off the record, why time does not pass, does not pass from you, why it piles up all about you, instant on instant, on all sides, deeper and deeper, thicker and thicker, your time, others' time, the time of the ancient dead and the dead yet unborn, why it bruries you grain by grain neither dead nor alive, with no memory of anything, no prospect hope of anything, no knowledge of anything, no history and no prospects , buried under the seconds, saying any old thing, your motheruth full of sand, oh I know it's immaterial, time is one thing, I am another, but the question may be asked, why time does not pass, just like that, off the redcord , en passant, to pass by the time, I think that's all, for the moment, I see nothing else, I see nothing whatever, fror the time being.
Version 03: MS-WU-MSS008-3-71 No point either, No point either , in your thirst, your hiunger , no, no need of hunger, thisrt is enough, in your thirst, no point in telling yourself stories, to pass the time, stories don't pass the time, nothing passes the time, stories don't pass the time, nothing passes the time , that doesn't matter, that's how it is, you tell yourself stories, then any old thing, saying, No more stories from now on this day forth, and the stories go on , it's stories still, or was it never stories, always any old thing, for as long as you can remember, no, longer than that, any old thing, the same old thing, to pass the time, then , as time didn't pass, for no reason at all , in your thirst, trying to stop cease and never ceasing , seeking the cause , the cause of talking without and never ceasing , finding the cause, losing it again, finding it again , not finding it again, seeking no longer, seeking again, finding again, losing again, finding nothing, finding at last, losing again, talking without ceasing x , ceasing , thirstier than ever, seeking as usual, losing as usual, blathering away, wondering what it's all about, seeking what it can be you are seeking , exclaiming, Ah yes, sighing , No no, crying , Enough, ejaculating, Not yet, talking incessantly , seeking once more, any old thing, thirsting away, you don't know what for , ah yes, something to do, no no, nothing to be done, and now enough of that, unless perhaps, that's an idea, let's seek over there, one last little effort, seek what, pertinent objection , let us try and dtetermine , before we seek , what it can be, before we seek over there, over where, talking unceasingly, seeking unceasingly incessantly , in yourself, outside yourself, cursing man , cursing God, stopping cursing, past bearing it , going on bearing it, seeking indefatigably, in the world of nature, the world of man, where is nature, where is man , where are you , what are you seeking, who is seeking, seeking who you are, supreme aberration, where you are, what you're doing, what you've done to them, what they've done to you, prattling along , where are the others, who is talking, not I, where am I, where is the place where I've always been, where are the others, it's they are talking, talking to me, talking of me, I hear them, I'm mute , what do they want, what have I done to them, what Hhave I done to God, what have they done to God, what has God done to us, nothing, and we've done nothing to him, you can't do anything to him, he can't do anything to us, we're innocent, he's innocent, it's nobody('s fault, what's nobody's fault, this state of affairs, what state of affairs, so it is, so be it, don't fret, so it will be , how so, rattling on , dying of thirst, seeking determinedly, what they want, they want me to be, this, that, to howl, stir, crawl out of here, be born, die, listen, I'lm listening, it's not enough, I must understand, I'm doing my best, I can't understand , I stop doing my best, I can't do my best, I can't go on , poor devil , neither can they, let them say what they want, give me something to do, something doable to do, poor devils , they can't, they don't know, they're like me , more and more, no more need of them, no more need of anyone , no one can do anything, it's I am talkking , thirsting, starving, let it stand, kin the ice and in the furnace, you feel nothing, strange, you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, inside me, outside me, well well , a minute ago I had no thickness, I hear them, no need to hear them, no need of a head, impossible to stop them, impossible to stop, I'm in words, made of words, others' words, what others, the place too, the air , the walls, the floor , the ceiling, all words, the whole world is here with me, I'm the air, the walls, the walled-in one, everything yields , opens , ebbs, flows, like flakes, I'm all these flakes, meeting, moingling , falling asunder, wherever I go I find me , leave me , go towards me, come from me, nothing ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, strangers, this dust of words, with n with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge , those that part, those that never meet , and nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a dumb wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, and that I seek, like a caged beast bor born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead, born in a cage and then dead in a cage, in a word like a beast, in one of their words, like such a beast, and that I seek, like such a beast, with my little strength, such a beast, with nothing of its species left but fear and fury, no, the fury is past , nothing but fear, nothing of all its due but fear , fear centupled, fear of its shadow, no, blind from birth, of sound then, if you like, we'll have that, one must have something, its a pity, but there it is, fear of sound, fear of sounds, the sounds of beasts, the sounds of men, sounds in the daytime and sounds at night, that's enoyugh , fear of sounds, all sounds, more or less, more or less fear, all sounds, there's only one , continuous, day and night, what is it, it's steps coming and going, it's voices speaking for a moment, it's bodies groping their way, it's the air, it's things, it's the air among the things, that's enough , that I seek, like it, no, not like it, like me, in my own way, what am I saying, after my gfashion , that I seek, what do I seek now, what it is , it must be that, it can only be that, what it is, what it can be, what what can be, what I seek, no, what I hear, now it comes back to me, all back to me, they say I seek what it is I hear , I hear them , now it comes back to me, what it can possibly be, and where it can possibly come from, to me, since all is silent here, and the walls thick, and how I manage , without feeling an ear on me, or a head, or a body, or a soul, how I manage, to do what, how I manage, it's not clear , dear dear, y dear dear , you say it's not clear, something is wanting to make it clear, I'll seek, what is wanting , to make everything clear, I'm always seeking something, it's tiring in the end, and it's only the beginning, how I manage, under such conditions, to do what I'm doing, what am I doing, I must find out what I'm doing, tell me what you're doing and I'll ask you how it's possible, I hear, you say I hear, and that I seek, it's a lie, I seeking nothing, nothing any more, no matter, let's leave it, no harking, and that I seek, listen to them now , jogging my memory, seek what , firstly what it is, secondly where it comes from, thirdly how I manage, that's it, now we've got it, thirdly how I manage, to do it, seeing that this, considering that that, inasmuch as God knows what, that's clear now , how I manage to hear, and how I manage to understand, it's a lie, what would I understand with, that's why what I'm asking, how I manage to understand, oh not the half, not the hundredth, nor the five thousandth, let us go on dividing by fifty, nor the quarter millionth, that's enough , 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, possible, it's appreciable, it's enough , the rough meaning of one expression in a thousand, in ten thousand, let us go on multiplying by ten, nothing more restful than 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've grasped one you've grasped them all, I am not in that fortunate position, all, how you exaggerate , always for the whole hog, the all of all and the all of nothing, never in the happy mean golden , never, always, it's too much, too little, often, seldom, let me now some sum up, after this digression, there is I, I feel it , I confess, I give in, there is I, it's essential, it's preferable, I won't wouldn't have said so, I won't alsways 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, no, leus let us be logical, there was never any doubt about that, this noise, on the other, if it is the other, that will very likely be the theme of our next deliberation, I sum up, now that I'm there it's I will do the summing up , it's I will say what is to be said and then say what it was, that will be jolly , I sum up, andx 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, on the subject of which, inverting the natural order, we would seem 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 date to determine with certainty, or even approximately , what it is, in the way of noise, or how it comes to me, or by what organ it is emitted, or by what perceived, or by what intelligence apprehended, in its main drift, and on the other , that is to say with regard to me, this is going to take a little longer, with regard to me, nice time we'tre going to have now, with regard to me, that it has not yet been our good fortune to establish with any degree of accuracy what I am, where I am, whether I am words among words, or silence in the midst of silence, to recall only two of the hypotheses launched in this connexion, though silence to tell the truth does not seem appear to have been very conspicuous up to now, but appearances may be deceptibve someitimes be deceptive , I resume, not yet our good fortune to establish, among other things, what I am, no, sorry , already mentioned , what I'm doing, how I manage , to hear, if I hear, if it is it's I who hear, and who can doubt it , I don't know, doubt is present, in this connexion, somewhere or other, I resume, how I manage to hear , if it's I who hear, and how to understand , ellipse when possible, it saves time, how to understand , same observation, and how it happens, if it's I who speak speak, and it may be assumed it is, as it may be suspected it is not, how it happens, if it's I who speak, that I speak without ceasing , that I long to cease , that I can't cease , I indicate the principal divisions, it's more synoptic, I resume, not the 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 , seek again , find again, throw away again, no, I never threw anything away, never threw anything away of all the things I found, never found anything that I didn't lose, never lost anything that I mightn't not as well have thrown away, if it's I who seek, find, lose, find again, lose again, seek in vain , seek no more, if it's I what it is, and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if it's not I who it is, and what it is, I see nothing else for the moment, yes , I do, I conclude, not the good fortune to establish, considering the futility of my telling myself even any old thing, to pass the time, why I do it, if it's I who do it, as if reasons were required for doing any old thing, to pass the time, no matter, the question may be asked, off the record, why time doesn't pass, doesn't pass from you, why it piles up all about you, instant on instant, on all sides, deeper and deeper, thicker and thicker, your time, others' time, the time of tjhe ancient dead and the dead yet unborn, why it buries you grain by grain neith neither dead nor alive, with no memory of anything, no hope of anythi anything, no knowledge of anything, no history and no prospects , buried under the seconds, saying any old thing, your mouth full of sand, oh I know it's immaterial, time is one thing, I another, but the question may be asked, why time doesn't pass, just like that, off the record , en passant, to pass the time, I think that's all, for the moment, I see nothing else, I see nothing whatever, for the tieme being.
Version 04: MS-1958 No point either , in your thirst, your hunger , no, no need of hunger, thirst is enough, no point in telling yourself stories, to pass the time, stories don't pass the time, nothing passes the time , that doesn't matter, that's how it is, you tell yourself stories, then any old thing, saying, No more stories from this day forth, and the stories go on , it's stories still, or it was never stories, always any old thing, for as long as you can remember, no, longer than that, any old thing, the same old thing, to pass the time, then , as time didn't pass, for no reason at all , in your thirst, trying to cease and never ceasing , seeking the cause , the cause of talking and never ceasing , finding the cause, losing it again, finding it again , not finding it again, seeking no longer, seeking again, finding again, losing again, finding nothing, finding at last, losing again, talking without ceasing , thirstier than ever, seeking as usual, losing as usual, blathering away, wondering what it's all about, seeking what it can be you are seeking , exclaiming, Ah yes, sighing , No no, crying , Enough, ejaculating, Not yet, talking incessantly , any old thing , seeking once more, any old thing, thirsting away, you don't know what for , ah yes, something to do, no no, nothing to be done, and now enough of that, unless perhaps, that's an idea, let's seek over there, one last little effort, seek what, pertinent objection , let us try and determine , before we seek , what it can be, before we seek over there, over where, talking unceasingly, seeking incessantly , in yourself, outside yourself, cursing man , cursing God, stopping cursing, past bearing it , going on bearing it, seeking indefatigably, in the world of nature, the world of man, where is nature, where is man , where are you , what are you seeking, who is seeking, seeking who you are, supreme aberration, where you are, what you're doing, what you've done to them, what they've done to you, prattling along , where are the others, who is talking, not I, where am I, where is the place where I've always been, where are the others, it's they are talking, talking to me, talking of me, I hear them, I'm mute , what do they want, what have I done to them, what have I done to God, what have they done to God, what has God done to us, nothing, and we've done nothing to him, you can't do anything to him, he can't do anything to us, we're innocent, he's innocent, it's nobody's fault, what's nobody's fault, this state of affairs, what state of affairs, so it is, so be it, don't fret, so it will be , how so, rattling on , dying of thirst, seeking determinedly, what they want, they want me to be, this, that, to howl, stir, crawl out of here, be born, die, listen, I'm listening, it's not enough, I must understand, I'm doing my best, I can't understand , I stop doing my best, I can't do my best, I can't go on , poor devil , neither can they, let them say what they want, give me something to do, something doable to do, poor devils , they can't, they don't know, they're like me , more and more, no more need of them, no more need of anyone , no one can do anything, it's I am talking , thirsting, starving, let it stand, in the ice and in the furnace, you feel nothing, strange, you don't feel a mouth on you, you don't feel your mouth any more, no need of a mouth, the words are everywhere, inside me, outside me, well well , a minute ago I had no thickness, I hear them, no need to hear them, no need of a head, impossible to stop them, impossible to stop, I'm in words, made of words, others' words, what others, the place too, the air , the walls, the floor , the ceiling, all words, the whole world is here with me, I'm the air, the walls, the walled-in one, everything yields , opens , ebbs, flows, like flakes, I'm all these flakes, meeting, mingling , falling asunder, wherever I go I find me , leave me , go towards me, come from me, nothing ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their settling, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, fleeing one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge , those that part, those that never meet , and nothing else, yes, something else, that I'm something quite different, a quite different thing, a wordless thing in an empty place, a hard shut dry cold black place, where nothing stirs, nothing speaks, and that I listen, and that I seek, like a caged beast born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born of caged beasts born in a cage and dead in a cage, born and then dead, born in a cage and then dead in a cage, in a word like a beast, in one of their words, like such a beast, and that I seek, like such a beast, with my little strength, such a beast, with nothing of its species left but fear and fury, no, the fury is past , nothing but fear, nothing of all its due but fear centupled, fear of its shadow, no, blind from birth, of sound then, if you like, we'll have that, one must have something, it's a pity, but there it is, fear of sound, fear of sounds, the sounds of beasts, the sounds of men, sounds in the daytime and sounds at night, that's enough , fear of sounds, all sounds, more or less, more or less fear, all sounds, there's only one , continuous, day and night, what is it, it's steps coming and going, it's voices speaking for a moment, it's bodies groping their way, it's the air, it's things, it's the air among the things, that's enough , that I seek, like it, no, not like it, like me, in my own way, what am I saying, after my fashion , that I seek, what do I seek now, what it is , it must be that, it can only be that, what it is, what it can be, what what can be, what I seek, no, what I hear, now it comes back to me, all back to me, they say I seek what it is I hear , I hear them , now it comes back to me, what it can possibly be, and where it can possibly come from, since all is silent here, and the walls thick, and how I manage , without feeling an ear on me, or a head, or a body, or a soul, how I manage, to do what, how I manage, it's not clear , dear dear , you say it's not clear, something is wanting to make it clear, I'll seek, what is wanting , to make everything clear, I'm always seeking something, it's tiring in the end, and it's only the beginning, how I manage, under such conditions, to do what I'm doing, what am I doing, I must find out what I'm doing, tell me what you're doing and I'll ask you how it's possible, I hear, you say I hear, and that I seek, it's a lie, I seek nothing, nothing any more, no matter, let's leave it, no harking, and that I seek, listen to them now , jogging my memory, seek what , firstly what it is, secondly where it comes from, thirdly how I manage, that's it, now we've got it, thirdly how I manage, to do it, seeing that this, considering that that, inasmuch as God knows what, that's clear now , how I manage to hear, and how I manage to understand, it's a lie, what would I understand with, that's what I'm asking, how I manage to understand, oh not the half, nor the hundredth, nor the five thousandth, let us go on dividing by fifty, nor the quarter millionth, that's enough , 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 enough , the rough meaning of one expression in a thousand, in ten thousand, let us go on multiplying by ten, nothing more restful than 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've grasped one you've grasped them all, I am not in that fortunate position, all, how you exaggerate , always out for the whole hog, the all of all and the all of nothing, never in the happy golden , never, always, it's too much, too little, often, seldom, let me now sum up, after this digression, there is I, yes, I feel it , I confess, I give in, there is I, it's essential, 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, no, let us be logical, there was never any doubt about that, this noise, on the other, if it is the other, that will very likely be the theme of our next deliberation, I sum up, now that I'm there it's I will do the summing up , it's I will say what is to be said and then say what it was, that will be jolly , 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, on the subject of which, inverting the natural order, we would seem 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 date to determine with certainty, or even approximately , what it is, in the way of noise, or how it comes to me, or by what organ it is emitted, or by what perceived, or by what intelligence apprehended, in its main drift, and on the other , 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, with regard to me, that it has not yet been our good fortune to establish with any degree of accuracy what I am, where I am, whether I am words among words, or silence in the midst of silence, to recall only two of the hypotheses launched in this connexion, though silence to tell the truth does not appear to have been very conspicuous up to now, but appearances may sometimes be deceptive , I resume, not yet our good fortune to establish, among other things, what I am, no, sorry , already mentioned , what I'm doing, how I manage , to hear, if I hear, if it's I who hear, and who can doubt it , I don't know, doubt is present, in this connexion, somewhere or other, I resume, how I manage to hear , if it's I who hear, and how to understand , ellipse when possible, it saves time, how to understand , 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, how it happens, if it's I who speak, that I speak without ceasing , that I long to cease , that I can't cease , I indicate the principal divisions, it's more synoptic, I resume, not the 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 , seek again , find again, throw away again, no, I never threw anything away, never threw anything away of all the things I found, never found anything that I didn't lose, never lost anything that I mightn't as well have thrown away, if it's I who seek, find, lose, find again, lose again, seek in vain , seek no more, if it's I what it is, and if it's not I who it is, and what it is, I see nothing else for the moment, yes I do, I conclude, not the good fortune to establish, considering the futility of my telling myself even any old thing, to pass the time, why I do it, if it's I who do it, as if reasons were required for doing any old thing, to pass the time, no matter, the question may be asked, off the record, why time doesn't pass, doesn't pass from you, why it piles up all about you, instant on instant, on all sides, deeper and deeper, thicker and thicker, your time, others' time, the time of the ancient dead and the dead yet unborn, why it buries you grain by grain neither dead nor alive, with no memory of anything, no hope of anything, no knowledge of anything, no history and no prospects , buried under the seconds, saying any old thing, your mouth full of sand, oh I know it's immaterial, time is one thing, I another, but the question may be asked, why time doesn't pass, just like that, off the record , en passant, to pass the time, I think that's all, for the moment, I see nothing else, I see nothing whatever, for the time being.

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