Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1

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Segment 1

[0207] by means of a string or an elastic. [0208] I took off my hat and looked
at it.
[0209] It is fastened, it has always been fastened, to my
buttonhole, always the same buttonhole, at all seasons, by a long
lace.
[0210] I am still alive then. [0211] That may come in useful. [0212] The hand
that held the hat I thrust as far as possible from me and moved in
an arc, to and fro.
[0213] As I did so, I watched the lapel of my greatcoat
and saw it open and close.

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Segment 2

[0214] I understand now why I never wore a
flower in my buttonhole, though it was large enough to hold a
whole nosegay.
[0215] My m [place = overwritten] buttonhole was set aside for my hat. [0216] It was my
hat that I beflor [place = overwritten] w [place = supralinear] wered.
[0217] Doubtless I shall speak of them later, when [place = supralinear] But it is neither of my hat nor of my
greatcoat that I hope to speak at present, it would be premature.
[0218] Doubtless I shall speak of them later, when the time comes to
draw up the inventory of my goods and possessions.

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Segment 3

[0219] Unless I lose
them between now and then.
[0220] But even lost they will have their
place, in the inventory of my possessions.
[0221] But I am easy in my
mind, I shall not lose them.
[0222] Nor my crutches, I shall not lose
my crutches either.
[0223] But I shall perhaps one day throw them away.

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Segment 4

[0224] I must have been on the top, or on the slopes, of some considerable
eminence, for otherwise how could I have seen, so far away, so near
at hand, so far beneath, so many things, fixed and moving.
[0225] But
what was an eminence doing in this land with hardly a ripple?
[0226] And
I, what was I doing there, and why come?
[0227] These are things that we
shall try and discover.

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Segment 5

[0228] But these are things we must not take
seriously.
[0229] There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature,
and freaks are common.
[0230] And I am perhaps confusing sef [place = overwritten] veral different
occasions, and different times, deep down, and deep down is my
dwelling, oh not deepest down, somewhere between the mud and the
scum.
[0231] And perhaps it was A one day at one place, then C another [place = inline] at

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