Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Not I / Pas moi

MS-TCD-4664

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Segment 1

Nothing speaks of nothing

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There is no me and there is no one else, there is no one at all,
there was never any me at all.


My I's are nothing and my mes are nothing and
my my's are nothing and so for all the other persons
in the quartet or quintet as may be.

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Segment 2

I am nothing speaking of nothing neither to myself
nor to anyone else.

Of things I am less formal, mind is being the nothing maker.

I have been speaking for ever and will go on
speaking for ever.

I speak in sentences of different varying length, but seldom seldom never
exceeding thirty words, longer than this I cannot.

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Segment 3

These are all perfectly constructed quite of regular construction, with a beginning,
a middle and an end.

The number Their number I cannot state with
certitude, but it must lie in the neighbour-
hood of 500.

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Segment 4

Permutability
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Pauses - away & back
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memory
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type of sentence

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Doodle 36
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