Samuel Beckett
Digital Manuscript Project
Footfalls / Pas

MS-UoR-1552-6

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Segment 1

M

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

V

[0043] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0044] Pause.

M

[0045] Straighten your pillows? [0046] (Pause.) [0047] Change your drawsheet?
[0048] (Pause.) [0049] Pass you the bedpan? [0050] (Pause.) [0051] The warming-pan?
[0052] (Pause.) [0053] Dress 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? [0061|001] (Pause) [0061|002] Again.

[0062] Pause.

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Segment 2

V

[0063] Yes, but it is too soon.

[0064] Pause. [0064|001] M resumes pacing. [0064|002] After one length halts facing
front at L.
[0064|003] Pause.

M

[0065] What age am I now?

V

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

M

[0070] Ninety.

V

[0071] So much?

M

[0072] Eighty-nine, ninety.

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Segment 3

V

[0073] I had you late. [0074] (Pause.) [0075] In life. [0076] (Pause.) [0077] Forgive me
again.
[0078] (Pause.) [0080] Forgive me again.

[0081] Pause.

M

[0082] What age am I now?

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 R
.)
[0089] May. [0090] (Pause. [0091] No louder.) [0092] May.

M

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

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Segment 4

V

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

M

[0099] [0099|001] (halting). [0099|002] 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

[0106|001] Pause. [0107] M resumes pacing. [0109] Fade out on strip. [0110] All in darkness.
[0111] Steps cease.

[0112] Pause.

[0113] 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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