Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2934

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Segment 1

Say Try all always at the same remove whatever [ADDITION]Addition on page 28rand see what happens. See if something happens. All always at the same remove whatever. All the little left.
All but nothing. The Say Try a shape in the far north-east
toward which remains of will may will still divert the
steps.

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Of will to know its nature. Of will if not
to touch it.
This left hand almost within reach
of the right hand just out of reach.
Say Try a hand
just out of reach.
[ADDITION]Addition on page 28rBale Bane too for good measure in what shape so far unsaid in some shape or other. Some measure not clear what.
All the all but nothing little left of all that once could of old
be approached or fled.

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Now on advance all by as much
recoils and on recoil advances by as much.
Angles of vision move motion can no more change than that
of gaze to star.
[ADDITION]Addition on page 28rfast afar Ahead afar dead north faint light
as through a rift.
Fast afar ahead dead north faint light
as through a rift.

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