Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-4

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[0200] M discovered facing front at R.

[0201] Pause.

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Segment 2

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[0202] Sequel: [0203] a little later, when she was quite
forgotten, she began -
[0204] (Pause.) [0205] A little later,
when it was as though she had never been, it
never been, she began to walk.
[0206] (Pause.) [0207] At nightfall.

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Segment 3

[0208] (Pause.) [0209] Slip out and into the little church by the south
door, always locked at that hour, and walk up and down,
up & down, His poor arm.
[0210] (Pause.) [0211] Sometimes she would
halt, as one frozen by some phantom of the mind, and
stand stock still till she could move again..
[0212] But
many also were the evenings when she paced without pause up & down, up & down, before vanishing
the way she had come.

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Segment 4

[0213] (Pause.) [0214] No sound of course. [0215] (Pause.) [0216] None at least to
be heard.
[0217] (Pause.) [0218] The semblance? [0219] (Pause. [0220] Begins
pacing.
[0222] After 2 lengths halts facing front at R.
[0223] Pause.) [0228] [0224] Faint, but by no
means invisible, in a certain light.
[0225] (Pause.) [0226] Granted the right light. [0227] (Pause.) [0228] Grey
rather than white, a light shade of grey.
[0229] (Pause.)
[0230] Tattered. [0231] (Pause.) [0232] A tangle of tatters. [0233] (Pause.) [0234] A faint
tangle of pale grey tatters.
[0235] (Pause.) [0236] Watch it - (Pause.)

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Segment 5

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Segment 6

[0236] Watch her pass before the candelabrum, how its flames,
their light ...like moon through passing cloud.

[0236|001] [0236|002] [0237] (Pause.) [0238] soon then after having
gone, as though never there, began to walk, []up & down, up & down, that poor arm.
[0239] (Pause.) [0240] At nightfall. [0241] (Pause.)
[0241|001] [0241|002] [0242] That is to say, at certain seasons
of the year, during Vespers.
[0243] (Pause.) [0244] Necessarily.

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Segment 7

[0245] (Pause. [0246] Starts pacing. [0247] After 1 length Halts facing front at L.
[0248] Pause.) [0249] Mrs Winter, whom the reader will remember,
Mrs Winter, one autumn Sunday evening, on sitting down
to supper with her daughter after
worship, after a few half-hearted mouthfuls laid down
her knife and fork and bowed her head.
[0249|001] (Pause.) [0250] What
is it, Mother, said the daughter, a very strange girl,
though scarcely a girl any more...(Brokenly.)

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Segment 9

[0250] Dread-
fully un -...
[0251] (Pause. [0252] Normal voice.) [0253] What is it, Mother, are
you not feeling yourself?
[0255] Mrs W did not at once reply.
[0256] But finally, raising her head and fixing Amy - the
daughter's given name, as the reader will remember -
fixing Amy full in the eye, she said - (pause) -
she murmured, Amy, did you notice anything ... strange at evensong?
[0257] Amy: No, Mother, I did not.

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Segment 10

[0258] Mrs W: Perhaps it was just my fancy. [0259] Amy: Just what
exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it was?
[0260] (Pause.)
[0261] Just what exactly, Mother, did you perhaps fancy it
was you noticed.
[0263] Mrs W: You noticed nothing strange?
[0264] Emily: No, Mother, I did not, to put it mildly. [0265]

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Segment 11

[0265] Mrs W: What do you mean, Emily, to put it mildly, what
can you possibly mean, Emily, to put it mildly?
[0266] Amy:
I mean, Mother, that to say I noticed nothing strange is
indeed to put it mildly.
[0267] For I noticed nothing of any
kind, strange or otherwise.
[0268] I saw nothing, heard nothing,

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it
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up & down, His poor arm.
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Addition 3
move again.
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Addition 4
[0226] Granted the right light. [0227] (Pause.)
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up & down, up & down, that poor arm. [0239] (Pause.) [0240] At nightfall.
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