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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

Samuel Beckett
Thinking, Mouths, Kind
Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Expelled/The Calmative/The End with First Love”, p.45, Faber & Faber
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.