How It Is by Samuel Beckett

Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571266869
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2012-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

PART 3

here then at last I quote on part three how it was after Pim how it is part three at last and last towards which lighter than air an instant flop fallen so many vows sighs prayers without words ever since the first word I hear it the word how

no more time I say it as I hear it murmur it in the mud I’m sinking sinking fast too strong no more head imagination spent no more breath

the vast past near and far the old today of the extreme old even the humming-bird known as the passing moment all that

the vast past even the humming-bird it comes in from the left I watch it fly lightning semi-circle deasil then respite then the next then then or eyes closed it’s preferable head bowed or not before the storm brief blanks good moments brief blacks then zzizz the next all that

all that almost blank that was so adorned a few traces that’s all seeing who I always more or less so little so little there but there little there but there no alternative

before Pim long before with Pim vast tracts of time kinds of thoughts same family divers doubts emotions too yes emotions some with tears yes tears motions too and movements both parts and whole as when he sets out to seek out all of him sets out to seek out the true home

there then more or less more of old less of late very little these last tracts they are the last extremely little hardly at all a few seconds on and off enough to mark a life several lives crosses everywhere indelible traces

all that almost blank nothing to get out of it almost nothing nothing to put in that’s the saddest that would be the saddest imagination on the decline having attained the bottom what one calls sinking one is tempted

or ascending heaven at last no place like it in the end

or not stirring that too that’s defendable half in the mud half out

no more head in any case hardly any no more heart just enough to be thankful for it a little thankful to be so little there and sinking a little at last having attained the bottom

a little cheerful the less you’re there the more you’re cheerful when you’re there less tears a little less when you’re there words lacking all lacking less tears for lack of words lack of food even birth it’s lacking all that makes you cheerful it must be that all that a little more cheerful

how it was that’s lacking before Pim with Pim all lost almost all nothing left almost nothing but it’s done great blessing leaving only sithence how it was after Pim how it is vast stretch of time before Pim with Pim vast tracts of time a few minutes on and off added up vast stretch eternity same scale of magnitude nothing there almost nothing

clench the eyes I quote on not the blue the others at the back

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