Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2934

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[0114] such a place & somehow left it out of it
not shudder.
For how could one even such
a one as he having once been found himself in such a place
& then somehow out of it again not shudder to
find himself somehow in it again nor turn
for help though of course in vain to the thought though of
course thought not the word that having somehow
got out of it again then there must be somewhere
a way out of it again now neither of which he had
done
& which he had done not done.
Then Nor having shuddered not turn for help to
the thought so-called for want of a worse word that having got out of it somehow
then he could get out of it somehow again
which he had not done either.

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[0117] Such & much more such the hubbub in his mind
so-called till nothing left from deep within but only
ever fainter oh to end.
[0118] No matter how no matter
where.
[0119] Time & grief & self so-called.[0120] Oh all to end.

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found himself
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in vain
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Nor
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for want of a worse word
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Date 1
June 87
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