Although I found the Molloy reading to be somewhat tedious at first I kept on reading looking for some trace of Beckett's authorship in the text. I like how he uses a kind of stream of consciousness to push the story forward. It to me seems energetic and authentic in a way. The following are five places in the text in which I felt I could sense the fictional characteristics of the novel. 1.) "This explanation subsequently turned out to be the correct one. But I added..." Beckett tells us what he is writing but, let's his characters go uninformed. 2.) "I shall not describe our attitudes, characteristic his of him, mine of me." I think Beckett means he will not describe these things to the reader. 3.)"To look at them he would have to hide from his father" Right before this Moran refers to him self in the first person, here I think Beckett is letting us know this is what it would be like, if this were a real story. 4.)"And saying many other things besides, belonging to separate and apparently unconnected trains of thought" The word apparently here got me thinking is this Moran's thoughts about his thoughts as Beckett writes them, and I said yes it is. 5.)"I could have made myself a pillow of the bags, but I did not, it did not occur to me." Where some might see this as a reflection of the narrator, I see Beckett telling us he did not want Moran to have that thought, so he didn't. I found the task of reading this whole novel in one sitting to be a far too tremendous and anxiety educing task, but so far so good, I might even think it's so nice, I'll read it twice.
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