Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-TCD-4662

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Segment 1

[0614] limp, drifting, as though tossed by the earth. [0615] And when,
after a halt, he started off again,
it was like a big thistle-down
snatched by the wind from the place
where it had settled.

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Segment 2

[0616] I have rummaged a little in
my things, sorting them
out and pulling them over to me,
to have a good look at them.
[0617] I was
not far wrong in thinking that I knew
them well, by heart, and could
speak of them, at any moment, without
looking at.
[0618] But I wanted to make sure.

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Segment 3

[0619] It was well I did. [0620] For now I know that
the image of these objects, with which I have
lulled myself until now, though
accurate on the whole, was not completely
so.

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Segment 4

[0621] Now I should be sorry to let slip
this unique occasion which seems to offer me the
possibility of something suspiciously
like a true statement at last,
I would feel I had failed
in my duty.
[0622] I want this matter to
free from all suspicions of approximation.

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Segment 5

[0623] I
want, when the great day comes, to be in a
position to announce clearly, without addition
or omission, all that its
weary prelude has brought me,
and left me, in the way of material
goods.
[0624] It must be an obsession.

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Segment 6

[0625] I see then that I had attributed
to myself certain objects which are no
longer in my possession, as far as I
can tell.
[0626] Might they not have rolled behind
a piece of furniture?
[0627] That would surprise
me.
[0628] A boot, for example, can a boot
roll behind a piece of furniture?

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Doodle 6
Categories:
Shape, Diamond, Cross, Hatching
Transcription
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