Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-BRML-NWWR-2-38

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[0326] except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in
getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less
[3] compassionate sewers.[]]
[0327] But it was well-meant and that's enough
for me.
[0328] Not[], it is not enough for me, but I give her credit, though
she is my mother, for what she tried to do for me.
[0329] And I forgive
her for having jostled me a little in the first months and spoiled
the only endurable, just endurable, period of my enormous history.

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[0330] And I also give her credit for not having done it again, thanks to
me, or for having stopped in time, when she did.
[0331] And if ever I'm
reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's
in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that
poor old uniparous whore and myself, the last of my foul brood,
neithrer man nor beast.

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[0332] I should add, before I get down to the facts,
vyou'd swear they were facts, of that distant summer afternoon, that
with this deaf, blind, impotent, mad old woman, who called me Dan and
whom I called Mag, and with her alone, I ---[] no, I can't say it.

[0333] That is to say, I could say it but I won't say it,. yes, I could say
it easily, because it wouldn't be true.
[0334] What did I see of her? [0335] A
head always, the hands sometimes, the arms rarely.
[0336] A head always.

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[0337] Veiled with hair, wrinkles, filth, slobber. [0338] A head that darkened
the air.
[0339] Not that seeing matters, but it's something to go on
with.
[0340] It's I who took the key from under the pillow, who took
the money out of the drawer, who put the key back under the pillow.

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[0341] But I didn't come for money. [0342] I think there was a woman who came
each week.
[0343] Once I touched with my lips, vaguely, hastily, that
little greay, wizened pear.
[0344] Pah. [0345] Did that please her? [0346] I don't
know.
[0347] Her babble stopped for a second, then began again. [0349] Perhaps
she said to herself, Pah.
[0350] I smelt a terrible smell. [0351] It must have
come from the guts.
[0352] Odou[]r of antiquity. [0353] Oh I'm not criticiszing

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