Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-WU-MSS008-2-47

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[0318] friends.[]?[?] [0319] I don't know. [0320] A few words about the boy. [0321] This cannot
be avoided.

[][0322] He was a precocious boy. [0323] He was not good at his lessons,
neither could he see the use of them.
[0324] He attended his classes
with his mind elsewhere, or blank.

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[][0325] He attended his classes with his mind elsewhere. [0326] He liked sums,
[0327] but not the way they were taught. [0328] What he liked was the manipulation
of concrete numbers.
[0329] All calculation seemed to him idle in which
the nature of the unit was not specified.
[0330] He made a practice, alone
and in company, of mental arithmetic.
[0331] And the figures then marshalling
in his mind thronged it with colours and with forms.

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[][0332] What tedium.

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[][0333] He was the eldest child [0334] of poor and sickly parenys parents. [0335] He
often heard them talk of what they ought to do in order to have
better health and more money.
[0336] He was struck each time by the vague-
ness of these palavers and not surprised that they never led to
anything.
[0337] His father was a salesman, in a shop. [0338] He used to say to
his wife, I really must find work for the evenings and the Saturday
afternoon.
[0339] He added, faintly, And the Sunday.

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[0340] His wife would answer,
But if you do any more work you'll fall ill.
[0341] And Mr Saposcat had to
allow that he would indeed be ill-advised to forego his Sunday rest.
[0342] These people at least are grown up. [0343] But his health was not so poor
that he could not work in the evenings and the Sat of the week and
the Saturday afternoon.
[0344] At what, said his wife, work at what? [0345] Perhaps

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