Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectStirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2934

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he must be said to -

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Segment 2

What walls were there that might
as well not have been?

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So all ears till now

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Light only to be described as none
different other than the in- indescribable indoor a reproduction of the
indescribable indoor

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But come & go as he might and so in principle
presumably drew nearer closer to the
clock wherever it was or further from
it away the strokes were still those now
clear now faint as when in theory principle
deadened by his four walls.

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Of the single other sound namely that of cries
so long the enlivener of his solitude
as he sat at his table head on hands
the same was true.

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Of the sole other sound that is that of cries

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Addition 1
Or the clear way of which he could think of no example.
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Stirrings Still / Soubresauts © 2011 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: Dirk Van Hulle and Vincent Neyt