Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-3

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Segment 1

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[0268] of any kind. [0269] I was not there. [0270] Mrs W: Not there?
[0271] Emily: Not there. [0272] Mrs W: But I heard you respond.
[0273] (Pause.) [0274] I heard you say Amen. [0275] (Pause.) [0278] How could
you possibly have said Amen if, as you claim, you
werr were not there?
[0278|001] Emily - [0278|002] (Pause.) [0278|003] Emily: At
the end?
[0278|004] (Pause.) [0278|005] The very end? [0278|006] Mrs W: Well yes I
suppose if you like, what difference does that make?

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Segment 2

[0279] (Pause.) [0280] "...and the love of God, and the fellowship
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all, evermore.
[0281] Amen."
[0283] I heard you distinctly. [0283|001] Emily: I was there at the
very end.
[0284] (Pause. [0285] Starts pacing, [0286] after three steps
halts facing front at R.
[0287] Pause.) [0290] Emily Mrs W: Emily.
[0295] Emily: Yes, Mother. [0299] Mrs W: Will you never have done
revolving it all?
[0301] Emily: It? [0303] Mrs W: It all. [0305] In your
poor mind
[0304] (Pause.) [0305] In your poor mind. [0306] (Pause.) [0307] It
all.
[0308] (Pause.) [0309] It all.

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Segment 3

[0310] Pause. [0311] Fade out on strip. [0312] All in darkness.
[0313] Long [] pause.

[0314] Sound a little fainter still.
[0316] Fade up to a little less still on strip[] . [0317] No sign of
Mary.
[0318] Long pause. [0319] Fade out. [0320] Curtain.

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