Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-BRML-NWWR-2-38

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Segment 1

[0353] her, I don't diffuse the perfumes of Araby myself. [0354] [[]Shall I describe
the room?
[0355] No. [0356] I shall have occasion to do so later perhaps. [0357] When
I seek refuge there, bet, all shame drunk, my prick in my rectum, [?]
who knows?
[0358] Good. [0359] Now that we know where we're going, let's go
there.
[0360] It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early
stages.
[0361] It almost rids you of the wish to go there. [0362] I was
distraught, who am so seldom distraught (from what should I be
distraught?) and as to my motions even more uncertain than usual.[]]

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[0363] [[]The night must have tired me, at least weakened me, and the sun,
hoisting itself higher and higher in the east, had poisoned me,
while I slept.
[0364] I ought to have put the bulk of the rock between
it and me before closing my eyes.
[0365] I confuse east and west, the
poles too, I invert them readily.
[0366] I was out of sorts. [0367] They are
deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.
[0368] That's
why I mention it.

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Segment 3

[0369] Nevertheless, I covered several miles and found
myself under the ramparts.
[0370] There I dismounted in compliance with
the regulations.
[0371] Yes, on entering and leaving town the police
compel cyclists to dismount, cars to go into bottom gear, and
horsedrawn vehicles to slow down to a walk.

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Segment 4

[0372] The reason for this
regulation is I think this, that the ways into and of course the
ways out of this town are narrow and darkened by enormous vaults,
without exception.
[0373] It is a good rule, and I observe it meticulous-
ly, in spite of the difficulty I have in advancing on my crutches and
pushing my bicycle at the same time.
[0374] I managed somehow.

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Segment 5

[0375] Being
ingenious.
[0376] Thus we cleared these difficult straits, my bicycle
and I, together.
[0377] But a little further on I heard myself hailed.
[0378] I raised my head and saw a policeman. [0379] Elliptically speaking, for
it was only later, by way of induction, or of deduction, I forget
which, that I knew what it was.
[0380] What are you doing there? he

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