Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-HRC-SB-3-7

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Segment 1

V:

[0083] In your forties.

M:

[0084] So little?

V:

[0085] I'm afraid so. [0086] (Pause. [0087] M resumes pacing. [0088] After
first turn at L.)
[0089] May. [0090] (Pause. [0091] No louder) [0092] May.

M:

[0093] (pacing) [0094] Yes, Mother.

V:

[0097] Will you never have done revolving it all?

M:

[0098] (pacing) [0099] It?

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Segment 2

V:

[0100] It all. [0101] (Pause) [0102] In your poor mind. [0103] (Pause) [0104] It all.
[0105] (Pause) [0106] It all.

[0107] (M continues pacing. . [0108] Five seconds.
[0109] Fade out on strip. [0110] All in darkness.
[0111] Steps silent.

[0112] Long pause.

[0113] Gong a little fainter. [0114] Pause for echoes.

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Segment 3

[0115] Fade up to a little less on strip.
[0116] Rest in darkness.

[0117] M discovered facing front at R.

[0118] Pause)

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Segment 4

V:
[0119] I walk here now. [0120] (Pause) [0121] Rather I come and stand.
[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)

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Segment 5

[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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