...Dies, The Unnamable (London: Picador, 1979), 277. hereafter cited as Trilogy. surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am,...don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (Trilogy, 381-82) But let me return to Augustine's Confessions to establish the beginning of the historical,...

...threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am,...know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." (1959: 418). We will come back to this passage later and see whether the self is lacking as radically...

...'The Unnameable': ... before the door that opens on my own story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am,...don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (Beckett, 1979, p. 382) Then comes Rilke's point: that by acknowledging the presence of nullity in...

...form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Proust (1961) 20 Where I am, 1 don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. The U inminable (1959) 21 Nothing to be done. Waiting ¡or Godot ( 195 s ) act l 22 There's a man all...

...over in the same room. The Unnamable ends: ". . . you must say words, as long as there are any ... I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."9 Shit is not the only excretion that paint recalls, and the alchemists were right to stress that...

...minimalism in (say) Samuel Beckett was offset against a stoicism of syntactical accretion, the Unnamable's 'in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on'.5 And in the case of Ashbery there is not only the periodic affinity with Beckett (most of all...

...solemnize that selection as their exclusive cultural property.51 Absurd. Better to back off with Beckett: where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know . . . better to speak gently out of a hard life; better to teach how to cook rabbits and not eat them...

...threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am. . . —The Unnamable, 179 THE narrator of The Unnamable will continue the exploration of desire and...

...threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am,...don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (179) This affirmation of the ability to use one's gift, no matter how painful, is also remarkable...

...silence: "I can't go on, you must go on, I'll go on, you must say words, as long as there are any ... it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know,...don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."7 This formulation, its halting cadences and uneven rhythms, might stand for the trajectory of...