Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2934

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Segment 1

In that head on those hands no more cries

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Segment 2

At The same place or at another.

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Segment 3

Supposed Known & different place another though nothing
to show.
Till all places the same
place.

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Segment 4

Nothing to show not the same.

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Segment 5

All places as the same place. No wall toward
which or from.
No table back toward to
which or further from.
In that same
now wallless place as when paced from
wall to wall in the all places as the
same place.

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Segment 6

Rise & start to go in the same place where
always
as ever.
Disappear on
& reappear in another where never. before.
Nothing to show not another. Where never. Nothing
but the clock.
The cries.

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Segment 7

Till one day or night or day so many
strokes since he had last seen him that perhaps
he would might not see him be seen again.
So many cries.

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Segment 8

Then so many cries since he had last heard
the clock strike that perhaps it would not strike might not be heard
again.

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Segment 9

But no means of knowing nothing to show when the cries ceased
whether or n whether perhaps or not sole sound they would might not
be heard again.

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Addition 1
might
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Addition 2
might not
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Addition 3
sole sound
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