Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript ProjectFootfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-2

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Segment 1

M

[0045] Rearrange your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your draw-
sheet? [0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the urinal? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The
bedpan? [0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dress your sores? [0054] (Pause.) [0055] Sponge you down? [0056] (P.) [0057] Moisten yr. lips. [0057|001] Tell
bedtime story?

[0062]

V

[0063] Yes, but It is too soon.

[0064] Pause.

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Segment 2

M

[0065] How old am I now?

V

[0066] And I?

M

[0070] (I suppose) getting on for ninety.

V

[0071] As much as that?

M

[0072] Eighty-nine, ninety.

V

[0073] I had you late in life.

M

[0073|001] You might have waited.

[0076] Pause

V

[0077] Forgive me again.

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Segment 3

[0078] Pause.

M

[0082] Well?

V

[0083] (You must be) well into your forties.

M

[0084] Is that all?

V

[0085] I'm afraid so. [0087] (M resumes pacing. [0088] After first wheel.)
[0089] Mary.

M

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

V

[0097] Can you not stop revolving it all?

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Segment 4

M

[0098] (pacing). [0099] It?

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[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] after about 5 secs. [0109] Fade out on strip.
[0110] All in darkness. [0111] Steps silent. [0112] Long pause.

[0113] Sound a little fainter

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

[0117] M standing front at .

[0118] Pause.

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Segment 5

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[0119] I walk here now. [0120] (Pause.) [0121] Rather I come and sit. [0122] (Pause.)
[0123] At nightfall. [0124] (Pause.) [0125] My voice is in her head. [0126] (Pause.)
[0127] She thinks she is alone. [0128] (Pause.) [0129] See how still she
stands, [⁁]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
head, She has not been out since girlhood. [0136] (Pause.) [0137] Not
out since girlhood. [0138] (Pause.) [0139] Where is she, it may be

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Addition 1
[0055] Sponge you down? [0056] (P.) [0057] Moisten yr. lips.
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Addition 2
with her face to the wall.[⁁]
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