Molloy

[TranquillityBase]

I heard the horn
in the dusk. It came from 
down by the river.
How Molloy got there I don’t know.
His legs have stiffened,
he can only crawl,
but I heard it, twice.
Yet why would he who abhors succor
from man or angel or even dog,
honk his bicycle horn?

Unless it was to acknowledge
that he resonates distress.
Yet, the act of pulling forth
from his greatcoat, while flat on his face 
on the bank or sinking slowly 
beneath the river surface,
his little horn to give it a final toot,
would show he already knew 
no one would listen.

Well, yes, that fits Molloy.
What he crawled into
he can crawl out of,
that would be a syncretic response.
He wouldn’t want it 
any other way.

[rowens]

More and more I forget. I never retain what I read. So I don't remember anything about this novel.
The other in the last line strikes me as relative in that it's relevant in a certain way that is coming to me out of a fog of boggled memories.
When I think of the bicycle in Beckett, I leave it there. A complete object. And when I think of Beckett and the bicycle, I think of nothing whatsoever. I know it is there, not even like a mad hatter's hat. Not even quite like a red wheelbarrow.
Does that make any sense?
To be at the river is what seems the most relevant.

[Kerbonzo_beenz]

What I gathered is Molloy got himself into trouble but was too prideful to yell or "toot" for help.

I like the concept of the poem, I just don't understand why Molloy doesn't just call for help.
That isn't a misgiving on the poem itself it's just of the clarity of it.

Another pothole: why would Molloy hang on to his bike if he's sinking into the river?
Furthermore, how could he toot his horn if his bicycle was submerged under water?

Maybe this was more firguritive than literal and just went over my head
but that is how that came across to me.

[TranquillityBase]

Molloy loses the beloved bicycle early on.  A historic moment, since as Rowens says, all Becket's characters up to then seem to be accompanied by a bicycle.

So at this point, he only has the horn, which he detached and carried away with him.

Molloy is pathologically apathetic.  I think that's a fair statement.  Anyway, that's what I was trying to convey.  Along with my affection for the character.