text: This character communicates with another by knocking on her skull, using one knock for yes, two for no, three for I don't know, and four for money.
full_question: This character communicates with another by knocking on her skull, using one knock for yes, two for no, three for I don't know, and four for money. In his last appearance, this character is told "don't fret...we're coming" after he falls into a ditch. After this character's good leg goes stiff, he uses his crutches to crawl through a forest where he meets and eventually kills a charcoal burner. At one point, this character discloses that he averages a little over sixteen farts an hour, and he struggles to devise a system of organization for the sixteen stones he keeps in his pocket, his "sucking stones". He spends a year in the care of the motherly "Mrs. Loy... or Lousse" after killing her dog with his bicycle while on the way to see his mother. The messenger Gaber conveys a message from Youdi to the detective Jacques Moran, assigning the latter to track down this character. For 10 points, name this title character of a 1951 novel that precedes Malone Dies and The Unnamable in a trilogy by Samuel Beckett.
first_sentence: This character communicates with another by knocking on her skull, using one knock for yes, two for no, three for I don't know, and four for money.
raw_answer: Molloy