Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-5

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Segment 1

M

[0042] Would you like me to change your position?

V

[0043] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0044] Pause.

M

[0045] Rearrange Straighten your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your draw-
sheet?
[0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the urinal warming-pan? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The
bedpan?
[0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dres[x]s your sores? [0054] (Pause.) [0055] Sponge
you down?
[0056] (Pause.) [0057] Moisten your poor lips? [0058] (Pause.) [0059] Pray
with you?
[0060] (Pause.) [0061] For you?

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Segment 2

[0062] Pause.

V

[0063] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0064] Pause.

M

[0065] What age am I now?

V

[0066] And I? [0067] (Pause.) [0069] And I? [0067] (Pause. [0068] No louder.) [0069] And I?

M

[0070] Getting on for Upward of ninety.

V

[0071] So much?

M

[0072] Eighty-nine, ninety.

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Segment 3

V

[0073] I had you late. [0075] [in life.] (Pause. In life.) [0076] (Pause.) [0077] Forgive me again.
[0078] (Pause. [0079] No louder.) [0080] Forgive me again.

[0081] Pause.

M

[0082] Well?

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.

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Segment 4

M

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

V

[0095] Will you never have done? [0096] (Pause.) [0097] Will you never have done ... revolving it all?

M

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

V

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

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Segment 5

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

[0112] Long pause.
[0113] Gong Chime a little fainter. [0114] Pause for echoes.
[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 6

(about 10 lengths)

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Addition 1
Straighten
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Addition 2
warming-pan
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Addition 3
poor
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Addition 4
Upward of
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Addition 5
? [0096] (Pause.) Will you never have done ...
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Addition 6
n
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Addition 7
Chime
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Doodle 2
Categories:
Shape, Stray mark
Transcription
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