Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-TCD-4662

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Segment 1

[0651] I shall say, I can hear myself
saying it, Item, a little packet,
soft, and light as a feather, tied
up in newspaper.
[0652] It will be my little
mystery, my very own.
[0653] Perhaps it is
a lack of rupees.
[0654] Or a lock of hair.

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Segment 2

[0655] I told myself
too that I must make better speed.

[0656] True lives do not tolerate this excess
of circumstance.
[0657] It is there the demon
lurks, like the gonococcus in the folds of the
prostate.
[0658] I am in a hurry.

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Segment 3

[0659] It is thence
that one fine day, when all nature
smiles and shines, that the rack looses
its black unforgettable cohorts and
sweeps away the blue for ever.
[0660] My
situation is truly delicate.

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Segment 4

[0661] What fine things, what
momentous things, I am going to miss
through fear, fear of relapsing into the
old error, fear of not finishing in time,
fear of revelling, for the last time, in
a last outpouring of misery,
impotence and hate.

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Segment 5

[0662] The forms are
many in which the changeless seeks relief for
its formlessness.
[0663] Ah yes, I was always subject
to the deep thought, especially early in
the year.
[0664] That one had been nagging
at me for the past five
minutes.

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Segment 6

[0665] I venture to hope there
will be no more, of that depth.
[0666] After all
it is not important to
finish.
[0667] There are worse things than
velleities.
[0668] But is that the point? [0669] Probably.

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Segment 7

[0670] All I ask is that the last of mine, as long as
it lasts, should have living for its theme,
I must have changed my mind.
[0671] That is all I mean, [0672] I know what I
mean.
[0673] If it begins to run short of life,
I shall feel it.
[0674] All I ask is to know, after
I abandon him whose life has just begun so

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Doodle 7
Categories:
Shape, Triangle, Rectangle
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Doodle 8
Categories:
Shape, Circle, Hatching
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Doodle 9
Categories:
Shape, Loop, Pen test
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Doodle 10
Categories:
Symbol, Number, Shape, Triangle
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Doodle 11
Categories:
Shape, Diamond, Cross, Hatching
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Doodle 12
Categories:
Shape, Wavy line
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Doodle 13
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Doodle 14
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Doodle 15
Categories:
Shape, Rectangle, Hatching
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Doodle 16
Categories:
Shape, Curl, Diamond
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Doodle 17
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Doodle 18
Categories:
Symbol, Letter, Shape, Angle
Transcription
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