
[1124] little, she seldom showed hersl [place = overwritten] elf, to me, out of tact perhaps, fearing
to r [place = overwritten] frighten [place = supralinear] [⁁]alarm me.
[1125] But I think she spied on me a great deal, hiding behind
the bushes, or the curtains, or skulking in the shadows of a first-floor
room, with a pair of field glasses [place = supralinear] [⁁]spy-glass perhaps.
[1126] For had she not said she
desired above all to see me, both coming and going and rooted to the
spot.
[1127] And to get a good view you need the hole in the lock [place = overwritten] [⁁] [place = supralinear] keyhole, the little
aperture [place = supralinear] [⁁]chink among the leaves, all that conceals you and reveals to you only [place = supralinear] and so on, whatever prevents you from being seen and from seeing more than a
bit by bit [place = supralinear] little at a time.
[1128] No?
[1128|001] [place = supralinear] I don't know.
[1129] Yes, she inspected me, bit [place = supralinear] [⁁]little by bit [place = supralinear] [⁁]little, and even in my very
going to bed, my sleeping and my getting up, the mornings that I went to
bed.
[1130] For in this matter I remained faithful to my custom, which was to
sleep in the morning, when I slept at all.
[1131] For it sometimes happened [place = inline] that
I did not sleep at all, for several [place = supralinear] [⁁]days, without feeling at all the worse
for it.
[1132] For my waking was a kind of sleeping.
[1133] And I did not always sleep
in the same place, but now I slept in the garden, which was large, and
now I slept in the house, which was large too, really extremely spacious.
[1134] And this uncertainty as to the times [place = supralinear] [⁁]hour and places of my sleep [place = supralinear] [⁁]sleeping must have
overjoyed [place = supralinear] entranced her, I imagine, and made the time pass pleasantly.
[1135] But it is
useless to dwell on that [place = supralinear] [⁁]this period of my life.
[1136] If I go on long enough
calling that my life I'll end up by believing it.
[1137] It's the principle
of advertising.
[1138] That [place = supralinear] [⁁]This period of my life.
[1139] It reminds me, when I think
of it, of air in a pipe [place = supralinear] [⁁]water-pipe.
[1142] And I bring it without ill-feeling, yes, I accuse her without
ill-feeling of having drugged my food and drink with noxious and insipid
powders and potions.
[1143] But even sipid they would have made no difference,
I would have swallowed it all down with the same whole-heartedness.
[1144] That celebrated whiff of almonds for example would never have taken away
- Segments
Molloy © 2016 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Magessa O'Reilly, Dirk Van Hulle, Pim Verhulst and Vincent Neyt