Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1

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Segment 1

[0357] 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 sl [place = overwritten] eldom
distraught, from what should I be distraught, and as to my
motions even more uncertain than usual.

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Segment 2

[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 e [place = overwritten] w [place = supralinear] west, the poles too, I
invert them readily.
[0366] I was out of sorts.

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Segment 3

[0367] They are deep, my
sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.
[0368] That's
why I mention it.
[0369] Nevertheless I covered several miles and found
myself under the ramparts.
[0370] There I dismounted in compliance
with the regulations.
[0371] Yes, cyclists on entering and leaving
town are required by the police 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 out of this town are d narrow and darkened
by enormous vaults, without exception.
[0373] It is a good rule and
I observe it religiously, in spite of the difficulty I have in
advancing on my crutches a [place = overwritten] pushing my bicycle at the same time.
[0374] I managed somehow. [0375] Being ingenious.

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Segment 5

[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 deduction, I forget which, that I knew
what it was.
[0380] What are you doing there? he said. [0381] I'm used to

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