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BECKETT, S.: Unnamable (The) (Unabridged)
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The Unnamable is the third novel in Becket’s trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text, and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett.
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The Unnamable
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Where now Who now When now
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Malone is there
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Let us try and see where these considerations lead
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That I am not stone deaf is shown…
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Why did I have myself represented…
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The other advances full upon me
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Perhaps it is time I paid a little attention…
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How, in such conditions, can I write…
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I hope this preamble will soon come to an end…
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I, of whom I know nothing…
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Can I keep nothing then…
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I’ll ask no more questions…
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But this is thinking again
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But now, is it I now, I on me…
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But let us first suppose…
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Let the man explain himself…
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Labyrinthine torment that can’t be grasped…
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Disc
2
The Unnamable
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And yet sometimes it seems…
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But obstacles, it appears, can be removed…
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In the evening, after supper…
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This touching picture of my situation…
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From that moment on…
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So let us consider now what really occurred
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What is strange is…
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I might as well tell another of Mahood’s stories…
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I hope this gives a fair picture…
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This story is no good…
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Wrong again, wrong again…
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The last step!
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Yes, I feel the moment has come…
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Two labours then…
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On now to serious matters…
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Disc
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The Unnamable
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Worm, worm, it’s between the three of us…
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What is there to add, to these particulars
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But enough of this cursed first person…
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I shall now sum up
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Hours have passed…
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Others. One alone, then others
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Ah if only they could begin…
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Where am I
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But one thing at a time
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Of what is it the time to speak
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But let us close this parenthesis…
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He’s coming, that’s the main thing
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They look, to see if he has stirred
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It is strange they do not go…
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But the eye, let’s leave him his eye…
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But Worm suffers only from the noise…
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Some simple thing, a box…
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Disc
4
The Unnamable
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But what calm, apart from the discourse…
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Is there then no hope
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Forward!
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Perhaps they are somewhere there…
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But a little animation now…
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But this isn’t Worm speaking
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But how can you think and speak…
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This will never end…
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Oh I know…
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But come to think of it…
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How all comes right in the end…
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And now for the it, I prefer that…
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Go mad, yes…
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The fact is they no longer know…
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… I hear them…
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… it’s a lie, what would I understand with…
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Disc
5
The Unnamable
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But I really mustn’t ask…
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Yes, but there it is…
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No no, no head either…
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Now, there is no one left
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And yet I have memories…
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But it didn’t happen like that…
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But once again the fable…
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I notice one thing…
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Someone speaks, someone hears…
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He must have travelled…
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The silence, a word on the silence…
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They love each other…
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The silence…
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But when it falters…
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I know it well
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The place, I’ll make it all the same…
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… I must be extremely old…
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Total Playing Time:
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