Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2859

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Segment 1

[0080] Till so many strokes and cries since he was last seen that perhaps he would not
be seen again.
[0081] Then so many cries zsince the strokes were last heard that perhaps
they would not be heard again.
[0082] Then such silence since the cries were last heard
that perhaps even they would not be heard again.
[0083] Perhaps thus the end.[0084] Unless no
more than a mere lull.

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Segment 2

[0085] Then all as before.[0086] The strokes and cries as before and he as
before now there now gone now there again now gone again.
[0087] Then the lull again.[0088] Then
all as before again.
[0089] So again and again.[0090] And patience till the one true end to time
and grief and self and second self his own.

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