Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-1

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[1294] familiar monument, so that I might say, I am in my town, after all, I
have been there all the time.
[1295] The town was waking, doors opening and
shutting, soon the noise would be deafening.
[1296] But espying a narrow alley
between two high buildings I lookd [place = overwritten] ed about me, then slipped into it.
[1297] Only
l [place = overwritten] Little windows overlooked it, on either side, on every floor,
[1298] face to [place = supralinear] opposite [place = supralinear] facing one another. [place = supralinear] facing one another.
face.
[1299] Lavatory lights I suppose.

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[1300] There are things from time to time,
in spite of everything, that impose themselves on the understanding with
the force of axioms, for unknown reasons.
[1301] There was no way out of the
alley, it was not so much an alley as a g [place = overwritten] b [place = supralinear] blind alley.
[1302] At the end there
were two recesses, no, that's not the word, opposite each other, littered
with miscellaneous rubbish and with exf [place = overwritten] crements, of dogs and masters,
some dry and odo [place = supralinear] urless, others still humid [place = supralinear] []moist.

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[1303] Ah those papers that none
will
[place = supralinear] []never to be read again, perhaps never read.
[1304] Here lovers must have lain at
night and exchanged their vows.
[1305] I entered one of the alcoves, wrong
again, and leant [place = supralinear] []leaned against the wall.
[1306] I would have preferred to lie down
and there was no proof that I wouldn't [place = supralinear] []would not.
[1307] But for the moment I was content
to lean against the wall, my feet far from the wall, on the verge of
slipping, but I had other props, the tips of my crutches.

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[1308] But a few
minutes later I crossed the alley,and went into the other chapel, that's
the word, where I felt I would [place = supralinear] []might feel better, and settled myself in the
same hypotenusal posture.
[1309] Ah [place = overwritten] nd at first I did actually seem to feel a
little better,
[1310] but little by little I acquired the conviction that such
was not the case.

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[1311] A fine rain was falling and I took off my hat to give
my skull the benefit of it, my skull all cracked and furrowed and burning [place = supralinear] []on fire,
burning [place = supralinear] []on fire.
[1312] But I [place = supralinear] also took it off equally because it was digging into my neck,
because of the thrust of the wall.
[1313] So I had two good reasons for taking
it off and they were none too many, neither alone would ever have
prevailed I feel.
[1314] I threw it away [place = supralinear] []from me with a careless lavish gesture and
back it came, at the end of its string or lace, and after a fr [place = overwritten] ew throes

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