Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-OSU-RARE-115

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[1621|001] was not all. [1622] For there was involved here, I mean
when I exploited thus the inequalities of t
inequalities in the ground, a further element
of disequilibrium, I mean my crutches, which
one of which would have been needed to be long,
and the other short, if I was not not to decline
from the
to prevent me from declining from
the vertical.

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[1623] No No? [1624] I don't know. [1625] And
then there were the ways I took, my ways, for
the most part little tracks in the forest, that
was natural, where the differences of level,
if they abounded, were too so confused and too
erratic
erratic that they could not be of help
to me.

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[1626] But did it make so great a difference
after []all, as far as the pain was concerned, whether
I rested my leg or whether I worked it?

[1627] I think not. [1628] For the leg that was at rest [1626] But
was there so great a difference after all, as
far as the pain was concerned, between my
being able to rest my leg and my having to
work it?

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[1627] I think not. [1628] For the leg that was at
rest, its sufferings were constant & monotonous.

[1629] Whereas the leg that drove itself to that the that in-
crement of suffering which was the work done
knew that abatement of suffering which was
the work suspended, if only for an instant.

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[1630] But
I am human I trust, and my progress felt
the effects of this state of affairs, and from the
slow and painful progress progress that it always had
been, whatever I may h I may have let escape
wa to the contrary, was transformed, with respect

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[1630] let it be said, into a veritable calvary, with no
end limit to its stations and no hope of crucifixion,
xxx without false blushes be it said, and
no Simon, and compelled me to frequent
stations.

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[1631] Yes, my progress compelled me
to stop more and more frequently, the only
way I could progress was to stop.
[1632] And
though it is not no part of my tottering in-
tentions to treat at length, xx deal at
becoming length with these brief instants
of the immemorial atonement, I must
yet I must for my sins touch lightly upon

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