Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Malone meurt / Malone Dies

MS-WU-MSS008-2-47

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Segment 1

[1510] almost buried in a casket, swelling. [1512] No matter, what matters is
that in spite of my stories I continue to fit in this room, let
us call it a room, that's all that matters, and I need [ [place = marnginleft] START→] not worry,
I'll fit in it as long as needs be.

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Segment 2

[1513] And if I ever succeed in breath-
ing my last it will not be in the street, or in a hospital, but
here, in the midst of my possessions, beside this window that some-
times looks as if it were painted on the wall, like Tiepolo's ceil-
ing at Würzburg, what I [place = inline] [] [place = margin left] a [ [place = supralinear] a] tourist I must have been, I even remember
the diaeresis, if it is one.

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Segment 3

[1514] If only I could be sure, of my
deathbed I mean.
[1515] And yet how often I have seen this old head swing
out through the door, low, for my big old bones weigh heavy, and
the door is low, lower and lower in my opinion.

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Segment 4

[1516] And each time it
bangs against the jamb, my head does, for I am tall, and the land-
ing is small, and the man carrying my feet cannot wait, before he
starts down the stairs, for the whole of me to be out, on the land-
ing I mean, but he has to start turning before that, so as not
to bang into the wall, of the landing I mean.

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Segment 5

[1517] So my head bangs
against the jamb, it's inevitable.
[1518] And it doesn't matter to my
head, in the state t [place = overwritten] it is in, but the man carrying it says, Eh Bob
esay [place = margin left] [] [ [place = margin left] tr.]! [place = overwritten] !, out of respect perhaps, for he doesn't know me, he didn't
know me, or for fear of hurting his fingers.
[1519] Bang! [place = overwritten] ! [1520] Easy! [place = overwritten] ! [1521] Right! [place = overwritten] !

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Segment 6

[1522] The door! [place = overwritten] !, [1523] and the room is vacant at last and ready to receive,
after disinfection, for you can't be too v [place = overwritten] careful, a large family
or a pair of turtle doves.
[1524] Yes, the event is past, but it's too
soon to use it, hence the delay, that's what I tell myself.
[1525] But
I tell myself so many things, what truth is there in all this

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