Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Stirrings Still / Soubresauts

MS-UoR-2935-3-3

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Segment 1

[0001] One night at his table as head on hands he sat he saw sees himself rise and go.[0013] First
rise and stand clinging to the table.
[0014] Then sit again.[0015] Then rise again
and stand again clinging to the table again.
[0016] Then go.[0017] Start to go.[0018] Head
on hands saw sees him rise as above said and start on unseen feet to go.

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Segment 2

[0019] So slow
that nothing if not change of place to show he goes.
[0020] As when he disappears
only later to reappear later at another place.
[0021] Then disappear again only later
to
reappear later again at another place again.
[0022] So again and again disappear
only later to appear later again at another place again.
[0023] Another place in the
place where he sat sits at his table head on hands.

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Segment 3

[0024] The same place and table
as wge when for example Darley once died long ago.
[0025] As when before him others
died and since.
[0026] And As when others will too till he too. Shall die till he dies.[0027] Hope then Hoping Head on hands hoping when he disappears again
that he will not reappear again and fearing lest he may not.
[0028] Or mere wonder rather simply wondering.[0028] Wondering wonder if he
will or will will not.
[0029] Or mere wait rather simply waiting.[0030] Waiting to see if he will for him to reappear or will not.

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Segment 4

[0031] Let or
leave him or not alone again head on hands. Uunwaiting.
[0032] Seen always from behind whither-
soeverhe soever on unseen feet ungoing he go.
[0032] Whitherwardsoever.[0033] Same hat and coart as always of old when he walked the back roads.

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Segment 5

[0034] The back roads.[0035] Now As one in a strange place seeking egress the way out.[0036] In the dark.[0037] Blindly iIn the
dark of night in a strange place seeking egress the way out.
[0012] So head on hands at his table one night
he saw sees himself go.
[0017] Start to go.[0037] In a strange place blindly in the dark of
ngith night seeking egress the way out.
[0038] A way out.[0040] To the old back roads.

The way out. A way out. Back to the back roads.

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