Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Molloy

MS-WU-MSS008-3-50-2

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[4593] 11. What is one to think of the excommunication of vermin in the
sixteenth century?

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[4594] 12. Is one to approve of the Italian cobbler Lovat who, having
cut off his testicles, crucified himself.

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[4595] 13. What was God doing with himself before the creation?

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[4596] 14. Might not the beatific vision become a source of boredom, in
the long run?

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[4597] 15. Is it true that Judas' torments are suspended on Saturdays?

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[4598] 16. What if the mass for the dead were read over the living?

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[4599] And I recited the pretty quietist Pater, Our Father who art no
more in heaven than on earth or in hell, I neither want nor desire
that thy name be hallowed, thou knowest best what suits thee.
[4600] Etc.
[4601] The middle and the end are very pretty.

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[4602] It was in this frivolous and charming world that I took refuge,
when my cup ran over.

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[4603] But I asked myself other questions concerning me perhaps more closely.
[4604] As for example.

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[4605] 1. Why had I not borrowed a few shillings from Gaber?

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[4606] 2. Why had I obeyed the order to go home?

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[4607] 3. What had become of Molloy?

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[4608] 4. Same question for me.

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[4609] 5. What would become of me?

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[4610] 6. Same questions for my son.

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[4611] 7. Was his mother in heaven?

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[4612] 8. Same question for my mother.

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[4613] 9. Would I go to heaven?

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[4614] 10. Would we all meet again in heaven one day, I, my mother, my son,
his mother, Youdi, Gaber, Molloy, his mother, Yerk, Murphy, Watt, Camier
and the rest?

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