Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-TCD-4662

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[0728] The Louis. [0729] The Louis had difficulty
in living, I mean in making ends
meet.
[0730] There was the man, the woman and
two children, a boy and a girl.
[0731] There
at least is something that admits of no
controversy.
[0732] The father was known as Big
Louis, and in big indeed indeed he was
big.

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[0733] He had been married married
several times already, before this last
marriage
marrying his young cousin, with
her
where we find him still and he is
still with her.
[0734] He had other children
in other places, men and women
firmly embedded in life, expecting no
hoping for nothing more, either from
themselves, or from others.

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[0735] They
gave him a helping hand helped him,
each one according to the best of his as his
powers permitted
according to his means
or as the humour cast him,

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[0735] out of
gratitude towards him but for whom
they would never have come into the world
or saying with indulgence, If it had not
been he [place = supralinear] him it would have been someone
else.

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[0736] Big Louis was completely toothless
and smoked his cigarettes in a holder,
while regretting his pipe.

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[0737] He was highly
thought of as a bleeder and disjointer of
pigs and was greatly sought after,
no, that I exaggerate, in this capacity,
for his fee was inferior to the butcher's
and he even had been even known to
accept [place = supralinear] ask no more, in return for his services, by way of remuneration,

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[0737] no
more
a gammon, or a little bacon.
[place = supralinear] xx How plausible all that is
than a
bit of lump of gammon or lump of gammon
or of pi or a pig's head.

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[0738] How plausible all that is. [0740] He often spoke
of his father with respect and tenderness.

[0741] His like will never be seen again, he would
say, once I am gone.
[0742] He must have said
that in other words.

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[0743] His great days fell
therefore in December and January, and from
February onwards, he looked forward
waited with pat
, he waited with impatience
for the return of that season, the principal

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