The void

 

(...) That shade. Once lying. Now standing. That a body? Yes. Say that a body. Somehow standing. In the dim void. 

A place. Where none. A time when try see. Try say. How small. How vast. How if not boundless bounded. Whence the dim. Not now. Know better now. Unknow better now. Know only no out of. No knowing how know only no out of. Into only. Hence another. Another place where none. Whither once whence no return. No. No place but the one. None but the one where none. Whence never once in. Somehow in. Beyondless. Thenceless there. Thitherless there. Thenceless thitherless there. (...)

 

Samuel Beckett, "Worstward Ho" (1981-82). Poems. Short Fiction. Criticism. The Grove Centenary Edition, Volume IV. Ed. Paul Auster. Grove Press, New York, 2006. Pp. 472-3.