Digital Manuscript ProjectFootfalls / Pas

[0122] (Pause) [0123] At nightfall. [0124] (Pause) [0125] My voice is in her
mind. [0126] (Pause) [0127] She fancies she is alone. [0128] (Pause)
[0129] See how still she stands, how firm, with her face to
the wall. [0130] (Pause) [0131] How outwardly unmoved. [0132] (Pause)
[0133] She has not been out since girlhood. [0134] (Pause) [0135] She
hears in her poor mind. She has not been out since
girlhood. [0136] (Pause) [0137] Not out since girlhood. [0138] (Pause)
[0139] Where is she, it may be asked. [0140] (Pause) [0141] In the old
home, the same where she - [0142] (Pause) [0143] The same
where she began. [0144] (Pause) [0145] Where it began. [0146] (Pause)
[0147] It all began. [0148] (Pause) [0149] But this, when did this begin?
[0150] (Pause) [0151] When other girls of her age were out at . . .
lacrosse she was already here. [0152] (Pause) [0153] At this.
[0154] (Pause) [0155] The floor here, now bare, was once -
[0156] (M begins pacing) [0158] But let us watch her move, in
silence. [0159] (M paces. [0160] Towards end of second length)
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Footfalls / Pas © 2022 Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project.
Editors: James Little and Vincent Neyt