I've been sitting on some parts of Molloy that knock on the reader's head, like Back to the Future when Biff says "Hello, Mcfly, anybody home Mcfly?" Yes Biff Knocks on poor Michael J. Fox's head just like Molloy knocks on his mother's head.
The first I saw was on page 4:
Perhaps I'm inventing a little, perhaps embellishing, but on the whole that's the way it was.
I always have the urge to quote the entire page I am looking at when I do this. And also all the
"I don't knows" and It may have beens" and "I forgets" lends to the unsurety of the text, by the way.
Another (11):
And what do I mean by seeing and seein again? (Isn't that great!)
four sentences later:
I wonder what that means.
And later (24):
I got to my knees, no, that doesn't work,I got up and watched the little procession recede. I heard the shepherd whistle, and I saw him flourishing his crook, and the dof bustling about th herd, which but for him would no doubt have fallen into the canal.
And this (26):
Even farts made no impression upon it. (Absolutely gorgeous)
And, of course (30)
The house where Sophie--no, I can't all her that any more, I'll try calling her Lousse, without the Mrs.--the house where Lousse lived was not far away.
And (31)
Let's first bury the dog.
then this (41)
Mad words, no matter. For I no longer know what I am doing, nor why, those are things I understand less and less, I don't deny it, for why deny it, and to whom, to you, to whom nothing is denied?
then (45)
if such a thing is concievable, and such a thing is conceivable, since I conceive it.
and (51)
She had a somewhat hairy face, or am I imagining it, in the interests of the narrative?
I could go on with more but we all get the point: nothing. Nothing at all.
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