Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-WU-MSS008-2-47

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[0616] and drawing them over to me, to look at them. [0617] I was not far
wrong in thinking that I knew them off, by heart, and could speak
of them at any moment, without looking at them.
[0618] But I wanted to
make sure.
[0619] It was well I did. [0620] For now I know that the image of
these objects, with which I have lulled myself till now, though
accurate in the main, was not completely so.

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[0621] And 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.
[0621|001] I might feel I had failed in my duty! [place = overwritten] ! [0622] I want this matter
to be free from all trace of approximativeness.

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[0623] I want, when the
great day comes, to be in a position to enounce clearly, without
addition or omission, that all its interminable prelude had
brought me and left me in the way of chattels personal.
[0624] I presume
it is an obsession.

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[0625] I see then I had attributed to myself certain objects no
longer in my possession, as far as I can see.
[0626] But 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 furnit-
ure?
[0629] And yet I see only one boot. [0630] And behind what piece of furnit-
ure?

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[0631] In this room, to the best of my knowledge, there is only
one piece of furniture capable of intervening between me and my
possessions, I refer to the cupboard.
[0632] But it so cleaves to the
wall, to the two walls, for it stands in the corner, that it
seems part of them.
[0633] It may be objected that my button-boot, for
it was a kind of button-boot, is in the cupboard.
[0634] I thought of that.
[0635] But I have gone through it, my stick has gone through the cup-
board, opening the doors, the drawers, for the first time perhaps,

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