Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-BRML-NWWR-2-38

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[0635] sun and I take good care not to be. [0636] The Aegean, thirsting for
heat and light, him I killed, he killed himself, early on, in me.

[0637] The pale gloom of rainy days was better fitted to my taste, no,
that's not it, to my humor, no, that's not it either, I had neither
taste nor humor, I lost them early on.

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[0638] Perhaps what I mean is
that the pale gloom etc., hid me better, without its being on
that account particularly pleasing to me.
[0639] Chameleon in spite of
himse[/]lf, there you have Molloy, viewed from a certain angle.
[0640] And
in winter, under my greatcoat, I wrapped myself in swathes of
newspaper, and did not shed them until the earth awoke, for good,
in April.
[0641] [[]The Times Literary Supplement was admirably adapted
to this purpose, of a never-failing toughness and impermeability.

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[0642] To break wind [?] did not tear it. [0643] I can't help it, gas escapes from
my fundament on the least pretext, it's hard not to mention it
now and then, however great my loathing.
[0644] One day I counted them.
[0645] Three hundred and fifteen break winds[?] in nineteen hours, or an
average of over sixteen break winds an hour.
[0646] After all it's not
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[0647] Four break winds every fifteen minutes. [0648] It's nothing.
[0649] Not even one break wind every four minutes. [0650] It's unbelievable.

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[0651] Come, come, I hardly break wind at all, I should never have
mentioned it.
[0652] Extraordinary how mathematics help you to know
yourself.
[0653] In any case this whole question of climate left me cold,
I could stomach any mess.

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[0654] So I will only add that the mornings
were often sunny, in that part of the world, until ten o'clock or
coming up to eleven, and that then the sky was overcast and the
rain fell, fell till evening.
[0655] Then the sun came out and went down,
the drenched earth sparkled an instant, then went out, bereft of
light.[]]
[0656] [[]There I am then back in the saddle, in my numbed heart

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