Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-BC-1991001-12-11

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[0269] I was not there. [0270] Mrs W: Not there? [0271] Amy: Not there. [0272] Mrs W: But I heard you respond. [0273] (Pause.) [0274] I heard you say Amen. [0275] (Pause.) [0276] How could you have responded if you were not there? [0277] (Pause.) [0278] How could you possibly have said Almen if, as you claim, you were not there? [0279] (Pause.) [0280] The love of Gosd, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, now, and for evermore. [0281] Amen. [0282] (Pause.) [0283] I heard you distinctly. [0284] (Pause. [0285] Begins Resumes pacing. [0286] After three four steps halts without facing front. [0287] Long pause. [0288] Resumes pacing, halts facing front at R. [0289] Long pause.) [0290] Amy. [0291] (Pause. [0292] No louder.) [0293] Amy. [0294] (Pause.) [0295] Yes, Mother. [0296] (Pause.) [0297] Will you never have done? [0298] (Pause.) [0299] Will you never have done...revolving it all. [0300] (Pause.) [0301] It? [0302] (Pause.) [0303] It all. [0304] (Pause.) [0305] In your poor mind. [0306] (Pause.) [0307] It all. [0308] (Pause.) [0309] It all.

[0310] Pause. [0311] Fade out on strip. [0312] All in darkness.

[0313] Brief PPause.

[0314] Chime even a little fainter still. [0315] Pause for echoes.

[0316] Fade up to even a little less still on strip.

[0317] No trace of May.

[0318] Hold fuifteen ten seconds.

[0319] Fade out.

[0320] Curtain.

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DIAGRAM 2

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[0089] a  May.

[0092] b  May.

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[0094] c  Yes, Mother.

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[0095] d  Will you never have done? (Ending about 8.)

[0097] e  Will you never have done...revolving it all? (Ending about 1.)

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[0098] f  (M halts facing front.) [0099] It?

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[0100] It all. [0102] In your poor mind. [0104] It all. [0106] It all. [0107] (M resumes pacing.)
[0109] g  Begin fade.
[0110] h  Black. [0111] Steps cease.

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DIAGRAM 3

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[0177] a  Does she still sleep, it may be asked. [0178] Yes, some nights she does, in snatches? (Ending about 1.)
[0178] b  Bows her poor head against the wall and snatches a little sleep. (Ending about 8.)

[0180] c  Still speak? [0181] Yes, some nights she does, when she fabncies none can hear. (Ending about 1.)
[0183] d  Tells how it was. [0185] Tries to tell how it was. [0187] It all. (Ending about 8.)
[0189] e  It all.
[0192] f  Begin fade.
[0193] g  Black. [0194] Steps cease.

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