Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-WU-MSS008-2-47

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Segment 1

[0469] raising my head from the pillow. [0470] By this I do not mean the [][the]
two windows in their entirety, but one in its entirety and part of
the other.
[0471] It is in this latter that the light has just gone on.
[0472] For an instant I could see the woman coming and going. [0473] Then she
drew the curtain.[|]
[0474] Until to-morrow I shall not see her again, her
shadow perhaps from time to time.
[0475] She does not always draw the cur-
tain.
[0476] The man has not yet come home. Home.

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Segment 2

[0477] I have demanded certain
movements of my legs and even feet.
[0478] I know them well and could
feel the effort they made[] to obey.
[0479] I have lived with them that
little space of time, filled with drama, between the message received
and the piteous respo[][o]nse.
[0480] To old dogs the hour comes when, whistled
by their master setting forth with his stick at dawn, they cannot
spring after him.

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Segment 3

[0481] Then they stay in their kennel, or in their
basket, though they are not chained, and listen to the steps
dying away.
[0482] The man too is sad. [0483] But soon the pure air and the sun
console him, he thinks no more about his old companion, until
evening.
[0484] The lights in his house bid him welcome home and a feeble
[]barking makes him say, It is time I had him destroyed.

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Segment 4

[0485] There's a
n[]i[i]ce passage.
[0486] Soon it will be even better, soon things will be
better.
[0487] I am going to rummage a little in my possessions. [0488] Then
I shall put my head under the blankets.
[0489] Then things will be better,
for Sapo and for him who follows him, who asks nothing but to
follow in his footsteps, by clear and endurable ways.

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Segment 5

[][0490] Sapo's phlegm, his silent ways, were not of a nature to
please.
[0491] In the midst of tumult, at school and at home, he re-
mained motionless in his place, often standing, and gazed

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