Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-TCD-4662

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Segment 1

[0524] than this reasonable, patient boy child,
struggling all alone for years to cast to throw
a little light upon himself, avid of the faintest
gleam, closed to the charms of dark.

[0525] Here truly Here truly is the air I needed,
buoyant and tenuous lively and tenuous
a lively tenuous air, far from the nourishing
fog murk that is killing me.

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Segment 2

[0526] I shall never
go back into this xxx carcass xx except to look
at its time.
[0527] I want to be there a little before
the plunge, to close on top of me for the last time
the old hatch, say goodbye to the holds where
I have lived, go down with my refuge.
[0528] Sen-
timental fool.

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Segment 3

[0529] But between now and then
I have time to frolic, on shore, in the
brave company I have always longed for,
always searched for, and which would
never have me.
[0530] Yes, now I am easy in
in my mind, I know the game is won, I
lost all the others, but it is the last one
that counts.

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Segment 4

[0531] That is what I would call
a good job of work, if I xx did not fear
to contradict myself.
[0532] Fear to contradict
myself!
[0533] If this continues it is myself I
shall lose and the thousand ways that
lead there.
[0534] And I shall be like the
unfortunates famous in fable, crushed
beneath the weight of their wish come true.

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Segment 5

[0535] And I even feel a strange desire come
over me, the desire to know what I am
doing, and why, and to say it.
[0536] So I
near the goal I set myself in my young
years and which has prevented me from
living.
[0537] And on the threshold of being no
more I succeeded in being another.
[0538] Which
Very pretty.

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Segment 6

[0539] The summer holidays. [0540] In the morning
he received private tuition.
[0541] You'll
have us in the poorhouse, said Mrs. S.

[0542] It's a good investment, replied her
husband.
[0543] In the afternoon he left the

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